Despite getting thousands of hits from the Daily Kos, Salon and Wonkette for my/our post(s) observing the indisputable fact that “homeless” people have no right to have cell phones, I’ve only received ten or so “negative” emails in response.
Because these people all think alike, it will not surprise any of my regular readers that they all went more or less like this:
“I hate you, you hateful hater! You should be kind, tolerant, compassionate and understanding, just like me! Bitch!! PS Bush sukx!”
And an oldie but a goodie:
“You’re ugly and you need to get laid.”
Amusingly, half the emailers were more upset over my contention that grown men who prefer riding bikes to driving cars are effeminate hippie losers than they were with my remarks about poor people. Seriously: they were very, very insulted by that.
One woman wrote to me and explained that I didn’t understand what it was like to be poor. She, on the other hand, had “almost” had to live in a car, and could “barely” afford her husband’s $300 medical bills. It was, she said, hard for her to come up with that money after she’d paid her taxes.
I replied by relating the fact that I grew up below the poverty line, as did my husband, and for most of our lives neither of us ever had a car to sleep in, had we’d needed to do that. I explained that “almost” and “barely” must mean that she didn’t have to and that she could. I can “barely” afford to to “almost” lots of things. We all can, and do. So the ***k what?
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