Weekly Meme

As usual, several days late, here's the weekly meme as posted by Stennie.

Q1 - Image: Does it bother you that the rest of the world seems to hate the United States? Do you think the U.S. has to change its politics or simply do a more effective job at public relations?

Yes, this bothers me a lot. We haven't been exactly popular in a long while, but the last six years have been especially hard on our reputation. The US has to quit acting like it is the only country in the world with people in it. Not participating in Kyoto and invading other countries are very bad policy. So yes, I think the US has to change its politics. I think we need to change the current administration. I hate it that wherever I go, I am an ambassador for politics I don't actually get to choose.

Q2 - Education: Which do you feel is the best environment for children's education, single sex or co-ed?

For sure, co-ed. I don't understand the point of separating the girls from the boys for school. I taught at a single-sex school once, and I don't see that the girls were doing any better there than at the co-ed one I was teaching at during the same time period. Both sets of girls felt pressure to wear make up and try to be the cool kids. In fact, one of my all-girls school classrooms had a picture of the Spice Girls in it, where the girls were wearing no tops, just covering their breasts with their hands. Titillation? Not for the most part. These were their role models. I don't know if not having the girls around helps the boys study better, but I can't imagine it makes a difference.

Q3 - Convenience: The 2007 Lexus LS has a feature that helps its driver parallel park or back the vehicle into a parking space. At the touch of a button, the Advanced Parking Guidance System’ automatically parallel parks the LS or backs it into a parking space with just a little brake work by the driver. If this feature were available for your car, would you use it?

I'm very good at parallel parking. But if this were available to me, I'd use it. You never know.

Q4 - Work: If you had to choose between working in sales or customer service, which would you choose?

Customer Service. Not everyone is mean and grouchy, and sometimes you can really make a difference in someone's day. Sales just seems slimy to me.