Everyone loves a good rant

Mostly when one can agree with the subject, of course. My former employee (the one that turned out to be sexist) did do a very impressive rant once about his experience being a TA and the undergraduates that completely failed to retain any of the information about research he provided.

Today, on Alternet, there was an article about Obama's stance on Cuba. I'm encouraged by the shifting tide right now, as represented by this piece. Suddenly, the rest of the country is realizing (or seems to be realizing, based on my vantage point) that those Anti-Castro Cuban-Americans in Florida are just disenfranchized slaveholders, waiting to go back and claim their unearned land and begin making money again. But that is beside my point here.

The last comment (well, when I read the post) included an interesting rant on the state of American "justice"

I'm all for patrotism, but why must I be a sheep. It seems we like to point the finger at Castro and Cuba for human rights violations that many states in this country abhere to themselves, but we call it justice because it was so-called decided by a 'jury of our peers' even as it was maniplilated by the politicians in our states that have such cruel laws on the books, and then we as citizens are told the laws were passed by the respresentatives we sent to to represent our interest and if we don't like the jobs our reps are doing we can vote them out of office at the next election but the laws that we passed will stay on the books even if they are cruel....and you know what, in the end nobody have to have responsibilty for anything.

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