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That movie was awesome. You probably won't get this message b/c I CAN'T REPLY
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Madeline (Korbel) Albright, '59
Hillary Rodham Clinton, '69
Sportz Star, '01
04/21/09
There are two other Wendy Wellesleys in the Cabinet.
04/21/09
You?
There are lots of Wendy Wellesleys on TV too -- Diane Sawyer is probably the most famous news person but Christianne Klein ('02) is now with ABC!
04/21/09
I didn't graduate. ADD hit me big time in college and I couldn't cope. Back in the early 80's there wasn't a diagnosis for ADD, but I'm still on the mailing list.
Did you know that Munger faces outwards because it was the dorm for financial aid students?
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*this is me trying to be a nicer person and giving a stranger the benefit of the doubt as opposed to just being a snarky bitch (which is way more fun)
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I saw her on Bill Maher's show on HBO, and she was brilliant and HILARIOUS.
He asked her to do a stream of conscious thing, where she say the first thing that comes to mind after whatever he said.
He said Dick Cheney
She said, 'INSANE'.
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I didn't know who she was until last week, so I guess I'm a horrible person or something.
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However, given that she was the first woman Secretary of State of the US, and a trailblazer, and this is a (oooh, dare I say it) feminist/woman's blog, I am embarrassed that you don't know who she is.
Besides, she was SoS NOT that long ago. I may be a fucking geezer and so on, but seriously? Clinton was president a decade or so ago.
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And if I sound unnecessarily passionate about this, it's because I take offense to ignorance, but even more than that, to people who take pride in their own ignorance.
04/21/09
Seriously, I remember the re-election of Clinton as being horribly confused as to why the news was turning states on a map red and blue. It was never discussed, it was never a topic in my house, I was pretty much left in the dark.
When she was first Secretary of State, I was six. When her term ended I was eleven. I also started getting into the concept of politics when I was eleven. She was just before my time, that's all.
04/21/09
And honestly, it wasn't even the fact that you didn't know that offended me quite so much as your defensiveness at the end of your original comment. People are allowed to make fun of you for not knowing who Madeline Albright is.
04/21/09
Matter of fact, I actually looked her up last week when that pin story broke, the way you do countries when you run across them in articles and don't know where they are.
I can't change my childhood to make you happy.
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That being said, everybody should know who Ada Lovelace (First computer programmer, not first female computer programer, first ever.) and, if you're a gay rights activist, who Alan Turning is (Every single computer you use is Turning Complete, he was also outed as a homosexual).
04/21/09
"I didn't know who she was until last week, so I guess I'm a horrible person or something."
Maybe you were being self-deprecating, but I didn't read it that way, and it sounded like your comment lacked a seriousness as to whether or not knowing who Madeleine Albright was no big deal.
Hey, you've clearly articulated that you sought out knowledge; about her and about a lot of things. I think that's great, given that you've stated that you grew up in a quiet household.
I just found your initial statement to be disrespectful. While it's clear your intentions are othewise, it didn't come across well.
04/22/09
so thanks, wibbles, for that bit of info.
let's just say I added a cluster to fine-tune the flow of data to my head (har har, obscure database jokes, gotta love 'em)
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So either she lied, or was fooled.
04/17/09
There are several people I've met who've met her, and it is the highlight of their lives.
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