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Entry: Remembering Kent State: The President as Street Thug Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/kent_state_the_president_as_street_thug#1429 Post contents: "What would help Mr. Purcell understand the construction workers more easily would be if knew they and their kin did not evade the draft and danger nearly as readily as Mr. Purcell’s set. Mr. Purcell as a smug Quaker has escaped the travails of life. A few hard smacks on the noggin would help him adjust his thinking." Smug or not, I am not a Quaker, nor do Earlham and Swarthmore represent the same sect of the Society of Friends. Like Burke I was educated by Quakers but maintained a Catholic formation. I was fortunate to escape some of life's travails, and perhaps fortunate not to have escaped others entirely. I was the first of my family to be graduated from high school. Indeed, I was the first on my father's side to attend high school. I would like to think that both intellectual folk and nonintellectual folk see me as a reasonably sympathetic outsider, but then you seem to know my "set" better than I. I take it you think you at least would feel better if you could beat the sh*t out of me; I doubt I would find it much of an improvement. But thank you for helping me make my case. Sent at: 2008 08 30