There’s no other way to say this
Posted October 4th, 2006 at 10:44 AM by Jon HamThese people are not normal:
Her parents told sex jokes around the dinner table and wrote explicit rap songs for friends’ birthdays. She grew up in Lockridge, an intentional community off Turkey Farm Road in Orange County, where community members own their own homes and share ownership of common land. It’s a liberal, extended-family kind of community, the sort where Mom and Dad shielded Amber from violence as a youngster. Talking about sex with their only child was another matter.
“Nothing was off-limits in terms of a question,” says dad Roger, who works in neurobiology and nerve-regeneration research at the VA Hospital in Durham and is an associate professor of surgery at Duke University.
And what, pray, is “an intentional community”? This is the kind of jargonistic term that any competent reporter would explain for the reader, rather than using it undefined to show oneness with the interviewee and superiority to the actual reader.
(h/t: Joe Coletti)
October 4th, 2006 at 11:49 am
Let’s see. “And it helped put her on a career path. … she received a bachelor’s degree in 2005 from Tufts University near Boston, where she majored in community health and American studies. … She recently lost her job at the bar.”
Someone tell George Leef about this. No doubt the author of the following will be surprised:
http://www.popecenter.org/clarion_call/article.html?id=1735
October 4th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
Jon Ham wrote:
“And what, pray, is “an intentional communityâ€?”
According to http://www.ic.org/ , an “Intentional Community is an inclusive term for ecovillages, cohousing, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives, and other projects where people strive together with a common vision.”
It seems to be typical Orange County looney tunes.