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		<outline created="Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:57:04 GMT" text="Ageism is becoming an issue for me">
			<outline created="Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:57:11 GMT" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2010/01/11/chair.jpg&quot; width=&quot;145&quot; height=&quot;196&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named chair.jpg&quot;&gt;I've been seeing a lot more ageism lately. "></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:57:41 GMT" text="By ageism, I mean people saying that my age makes me less intelligent, informed, clued, aware, whatever. It's never rational, not part of an intelligent discussion. I can't probe the people to find out what they mean. I assume they're expressing some frustration and projecting it on me."></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:58:49 GMT" text="It happens almost every day. I'm not talking about things happening in my imagination. It's very real and I find it as disturbing as racism, sexism, etc. Only this is one thing that eventually gets everyone, so it's different. "></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:00:05 GMT" text="Switch gears to the flap over Harry Reid and his comments about President Obama's race. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion of what it means. Mine is that Reid is inarticulate, a bumbler, he screws up this way a lot. I have no idea how a person likes this ends up in his position as Senate Majority Leader, but there you have it. I think Reid was this inarticulate at every age. "></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:02:37 GMT" text="Earlier today I was listening to Talk of the Nation on NPR and heard an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122450102&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with Keli Goff from the Huffington Post. The interview started with an explanation that linked Reid's embarassing words to his age. She went out on a limb, way too far, although later in the interview she walked it back a bit. "></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:03:38 GMT" text="This led to an afternoon of heated exchanges on Twitter. Lots of nasty stuff was said about people of my age, most of them untrue. What troubles me is that there is no general acceptance for insults based on race, religion or gender, but age-based insults have no taboo."></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:23:08 GMT" text="Bring up ageism and out comes it comes -- it's the one insult that's considered socially acceptable. It's like watching an old movie where women, blacks, Native Americans or Chinese were assumed inferior. Only it's here and now, in 2010."></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:06:16 GMT" text="Inside I think of myself as young. At age 54, it's ridiculous that I have to defend against ageism, but there you have it. It's here, so we'll deal with it. "></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:07:02 GMT" text="You know everyone has only so much time on this planet. If you're trying to do good with your life, that's all you should have to know about someone. From there, our struggles or birthmarks are not issues for others to use against them. Barack Obama was born half-black and half-white. I was born Jewish and white. "></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:14:12 GMT" text="I care about your ideas, your deeds, your sense of humor. I love that Goff was so generous in defense of Reid, asking where was the racism. It was a shame she couldn't see her own ageism."></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:08:58 GMT" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com/totn10jan11.mp3&quot;&gt;Here's an MP3&lt;/a&gt; of the segment."></outline>
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