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Centro Restaurant & Lounge
- Address:
One West Exchange Street
Providence, RI 02903Neighborhood:
- Cuisine:
ItalianPrice: $31 to $50
Centro Restaurant & Lounge
- Dining Style: Casual Elegant
- Website: http://www.centroprovidence.com/
- Phone: (401) 228-6802
- Hours of Operation:
Breakfast: Served Daily: 6:30am - 11:30am, Walk-ins...No Reservations for Breakfast Service
Lunch: Daily: 11:30am - 5:00pm;
Dinner: Nightly: 5:00pm - 11:00pm
Bar and Lounge open nightly till close
- Payment Options: AMEX,Discover,MasterCard,Visa
- Cuisine: Italian
- Executive Chef: Ryan Escudé
- Dress Code: Casual Dress
- Accepts Walk-Ins: Yes
- Additional Details: Banquet/Private Rooms, Bar Dining, Bar/Lounge, Beer, Full Bar, Late Night, Non-Smoking Restaurant, Personal wines welcome (corkage fee applies), Private Room, Takeout, View, Wheelchair Access, Wine
Getting there
- Cross Street: Sabin
- Public Transit: Kennedy Plaza Bus Transit
Amtrak Train Station
TF Green Airport (Warwick)
- Parking: Public Lot
- Parking Details: Centro offers 3 hours free parking in the Rhode Island Convention Center parking garage (during dinner service only) as well as valet parking for your convenience.
A word from Centro Restaurant & Lounge
Centro Restaurant and Lounge has been defined as "A Return to Grand Hotel Dining," "Not afraid of excess," and as "The Restaurant in the Omni, not a "hotel restaurant." Our seasonal, fresh, Italian Inspired Cuisine, Extensive Wine List and Bar Menu are only the beginning. We are focused on bringing our patrons an amazing experience, whether it is in our lounge, dining room or at a function in our private dining room. You will find our staff professional, personable and exceeding your expectations. Conveniently located in the Omni Providence Hotel on the 2nd floor, Centro is open every day for breakfast from 6:30am until 11:30am, lunch from 11:30am until 2:30pm, full lunch menu in the bar and lounge from 2:30pm to 5pm, and dinner from 5pm until 11pm. Join us in our relaxing lounge anytime between 11am and closing for a glass of wine, specialty drinks, or our late night menu.Continued
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Centro Restaurant & Lounge reviews from OpenTable diners
13 reviews since July 31, 2014
- Food3.9Service3.2
- Ambiance3.9Noise LevelModerate
good for groups (4)fit for foodies (3)special occasion (3)vibrant bar scene (2)great for lunch (1)kid-friendly (1)notable wine list (1)romantic (1)hot spot (1)late-night find (1)Show More
- Won't go backOpenTable Diner Since 2009VIPDined on 10/25/2014Nobody at door to greet us. Waited for table even though we had reservation. Waiter was distant and unfriendly. Too dark to read menu. No suggestions made. Didn't get our drinks until after appetizers. Nit a mention of friends birthday. A total fail.
- Small portionsCdmdadDined on 10/18/2014The menu had some great options. The portions were a little on the small side for the prices. The food was delicious, however. The ambiance/ atmosphere was very nice and a very nice bar/ lounge area.I would recommend this to a friend.
- Service was awful!AmattesonDined on 10/11/2014We were a party of 4. The waiter we had was terrible. He was not very pleasant, seemed always in a rush & did not really care about our service. We ordered 2 apps & 4 entrees. I had asked for a substitution no potatoes just veg & the waiter told me he would ask the chef came back out and said the kitchen is to busy to do that but we could order a side of veg. Then ALL our food & apps came out together! It got cold because we could not eat everything at once. The server came over & did not even care or offer us any options just said oh well it's busy back there! In the end the server never apologized or did anything for the inconvenience. Sad part is the food was delicious...Special Features:
- Expensive RestaurantArtmclriDined on 9/28/2014Although the food was good it was very expensive. More than other downtown Providence restaurants. And if you want coffee?? Each and every cup is $4.00 !!
- Lovely, quiet, convenientchefchickDined on 9/13/2014Came here after Disney on Ice at the Dunkin Donuts Center. It started raining as the show let out, so we used the indoor sky walk that connects the DDC to the Omni Hotel where Centro is and the Providence Place mall as well.The atmosphere was perfect after the high energy and noise level of where we'd just left; quiet, large and softly lit.We had beef carpaccio and meatballs to share as appetizers; both delicious. Our party had mac & cheese (my 4 yo; they do have a kids menu though I didn't see it on the website - was planning on getting her a pizza); snapper, salmon and pork entrees. All vey well prepared, as was creme brûlée and coffee. Great service except for a 15min disappearance after dessert was brought, we waited for our check.Special Features:
- The following 55 reviews are from the Centro Restaurant & Lounge reviews archive.
- Waiter that is on your sideglobaltravlerDined on 7/29/2014I want to start with a suggestion. Upon arrival, ask for Paul M as your waiter. He is professional, attentive to his customers, and goes out of the way to take care of his customers. Now about the restaurant. The restaurant is fairly new and well decorated. It is quiet and good for dinner conversations. The clam chowder is excellent with large chuncks of clams. For entre, I highly recommend the scallop and the sirloin. The red snapper is a bit on the plain and tough side so I would stay away from it. The lobster ravioli is delicious. The portion seemed a bit small.Special Features:
- A Providence GemTonyMichaels23VIPDined on 7/26/2014In a city of many great restaurants, it is difficult to stand out, but Centro manages to do that.Special Features:
- FoodTraaDined on 7/19/2014Dinner food gas great flavor and presentation. The breakfast buffet and staff the next day were great as well. Ambiance was five star.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Nice eveningIvanDined on 5/10/2014Was surprised to find that this restaurant was in a hotel, but it was a very nice dinner without the "canned" atmosphere one finds in many hotel restaurants.Special Features:
- Last Minute SurpriseChristopherDined on 4/26/2014We had a change of plans last minute and needed a new location for a party of 10 on a Saturday night.. Found this place on open table and made the reservation... Everyone was pleasantly surprised how nice the atmosphere was.. We waited at the bar (by choice) while everyone arrived and had a. Great bar tender.. They sat us at a great table... Food was just as tastefully as the place itself... Would highly recommend this place to any and all my friends...Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Consistently Very GoodJackVIPDined on 4/12/2014Food is always great. Having no specials was a little disappointing but everything was great...Special Features:
- Delicious food @ CentroMissElizaDined on 3/29/2014The food was really great at Centro. I felt the prices were a little high but since I'm not from the area they may be spot-on. The service was wonderful and our server was great. We asked to have separate checks which I realize is extremely annoying to servers but ours was fabulous.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Formally known as the AGORAAxelVIPDined on 3/7/2014Often overlooked as a hotel restaurant the formally known AGORA was renamed the CENTRO. It is located in the new OMNI hotel which is the old Westin Hotel which is connected to Providence Place Mall via a sky bridge. We were looking for a light lunch and a walk in the mall on a cold winter day. At the entrance of the CENTRO we actually met the chef and asked him what he would recommend: The spinach salad and the Vegetable Panini was our choice among his recommendations. Turns out the chef is always right. The Panini was delicious, not too fatty but crisp on the outside. The spinach salad had walnuts and goat chees. A perfect light lunch!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Perfect for Valentine's DaytdmoochDined on 2/15/2014I took my girlfriend here on Valentine's Day, not knowing much about the restaruant. It exceeded my expectations...the wait staff was exceptional, the food was delicious, and the overall atmosphere was great! I had the Sirloin steak and my girlfriend had the scallops...both were fantastic!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- The food was very good. LotsOpenTable Diner Since 2013Dined on 2/15/2014The food was very good. Lots of flavor. The featured drinks were a let down, Serving size wasnt what you would have expected. And our water boy had more menu knowledge than our server.
- So SoFoodie1Dined on 1/17/2014Centro is very nice inside, the host was pleasant and our waitress was also friendly and honest when it came to her opinion on food choices...this is the only reason I give the overall place a 3. I think what matters most about a restaurant is food and there food was nothing to rave about, I ordered the squash soup...it was simple yet good but not awesome. As an entree I got the salmon and I've had better and even made better myself so I was a bit disappointed. Even the potato things on the side weren't very good, had a weird taste which I did not enjoy very much. As a dessert I got the Tiramisu which I've had better at multiple place, my boyfriend ordered their cherry banana bread pudding, and we did not like that at all.Special Features:
- All of our meals were wellSGregorioVIPDined on 11/9/2013All of our meals were well prepared and very tasty. We would come back again.Special Features:
- Good Food - Average Servicesportsnut61Dined on 11/3/2013Food was very good and the portions provided were on the large side. The service was spotty at best. Our waiter could have been more attentive, did not bring spoons or milk when he served our tea at dessert and did not check with us frequently enough throughout our dinner. We also felt that the service was very slow. The highlight of the meal was sitting next to Adam West's table, "the original batman", who was dining in the restaurant after the "Comic-Con" convention.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- You will find better placesAdrianoDined on 9/28/2013Didn't think the serviço was very good No patience and knowledge about the wine list & food Also we found many other places much better to eat, such as CAVSpecial Features:
- generally underwhelmedrunpvdDined on 9/28/2013Went there for a anniversary dinner. The service was very slow, but as well, the waitress acted like we were asking her to rob a bank when I asked for something not quite on the menu (which it was on the menu, she just could not think creatively- or be bothered to be more blunt). The service standard I think it generally not at the high bar that a restaurant with that menu and price point should be. The food was actually good (thank goodness, or I would have walked out). I am not sure if some people lower their bar on what they accept...But with so many other options and wait staff that are trained and willing to be of service, I am afraid that I would never go back there.
- GreatFinedinerDined on 5/18/2013I came here for graduation dinner with a group of 9 in total. The staff was excellent, knowledgable, and the food was fabulous. Everyone at the table was pleased. We got three appetizers to share and everyone ordered different entrees, everything was absolutely delicious. We had a few bottles of wine along with dinner and the list was impressive and our selections were delicious. Overall a great experience and I would definitely recommend this restaurant to others.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Enjoy and DineEat33Dined on 5/12/2013My experience at Centro Restaurant and Lounge was great. Very attentive and Friendly service and a very cozy, immaculate atmosphere. I would encourage any one to try it.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- We brought a large group tobhbrunchVIPDined on 4/13/2013We brought a large group to Centro for a special event and had a wonderful time. Our server Frank was extremely nice and attentive and the food was delicious. We thoroughly enjoyed our meal!Special Features:
- above average yet disappointsacwpvdVIPDined on 3/31/2013have dined here five times. its a decent place with solid italian food, yet nothing to write home about. the dining experience is, overall, a bit parochial. that is, the servers, bartenders, and food are reflective of a typical rhode island take on italian food. nothing too creative or experimental here and nothing impressive. the food is better than the service, however, which is done by very kind yet untrained servers. again, much of this is to be expected in a small state with not a lot of fine diners. the problem here is that the prices are too high for quality of the overall experience so you feel gouged. i hope the owners will find a way to put together a menu that has good quality but is slightly less expensive.
- yomOpenTable Diner Since 2007Dined on 9/10/2012the food was very good went early so it was not busy had a port dish that was to die for with vivergar petter would go there again for special dinner a little on the high side but worth itSpecial Features:
- MAKE SURE YOU HAVE CASHOpenTable Diner Since 2012Dined on 8/31/2012Everything was perfect...... EXCEPT...... They only take cash... We had to go to 2 different atms to get money for our dimmer.. I usually dont carry 200.00 or more Dollars on me. So this was a total let down... Make sure you check before you start to order... Food was Great Service was Great but a big let down when we went to pay...We were in a hurray for another appointment since we had to run around to find an atm we were late ..Special Features:
- Amazing restaurant headedOpenTable Diner Since 2012Dined on 8/2/2012Amazing restaurant headed by an amazing chef who strives to make others happy through his love of foodSpecial Features:
- Have eaten at Centro's manyStarshellDined on 6/30/2012Have eaten at Centro's many times and have never been disappointed. Love it!Special Features:
- Excellent food, wonderful staffOpenTable Diner Since 2012Dined on 5/27/2012We dined at Centro Restaurant to celebrate my daughter's graduation. The staff was helpful and friendly and the food was excellent. Dishes such as the crabmeat appetizer, the slowly cooked Atlantic salmon and the carrot cake were memorable. I would definitely return to this restaurant when I visit Providence.Special Features:
- The overall feel and ambienceOpenTable Diner Since 2011VIPDined on 5/26/2012The overall feel and ambience of the restaurant is great. Nice menu and great food. We would definitely go back again.Special Features:
- Imaginative ItalianKEDinesVIPDined on 5/26/2012My daughter and I had a fabulous dinner, from first course through dessert. Dishes are imaginative but not outlandish. The beet, goat cheese, and faro salad was unusual but very tasty, as was my daughter's chianti pear, argula, and proscuitto salad. (The only quibble here: the proscuitto slices were the bottom layer and thus completely out of view; she'd eaten most of the salad before she found them.) My daughter had the deconstructed lasagna with buttercup squash and I ordered the pasta ribbons with braised beef cheeks in a creamy truffle oil infused sauce - both wonderful. Desserts are generous - the untraditional but delicious biscotti plate could easily satisfy two. Service was very attentive. Expensive, but worth it!Special Features:
- Good dinner in downtown ProvidenceOpenTable Diner Since 2012Dined on 5/25/2012The food was very good, but not exceptional, and the portions seemed to be too large. I know that is a strange criticism in supersized America, but too much of a good thing is not necessarily good, and nobody had room for desert. It seemed to be a tad overpriced for the quality hence the three stars instead of four.Special Features:
- Staff was very nice and friendly,OpenTable Diner Since 2012Dined on 5/19/2012Staff was very nice and friendly, made a reservation ahead of time to avert any long waiting periods after graduation. Dissappointed as table was not set up and ready when we arrived......Special Features:
- Mother's Day BrunchOpenTable Diner Since 2012Dined on 5/13/2012For Mothers' Day my son paid in advance for brunch for both grandmother and me. EVERYTHING was FABulous! Service was EXCELLENT (John), and the food was absolutely TOP NOTCH!!! We lingered for 2 hours and savored every morsel. Thank you for a wonderful experience!!!Special Features:
- My husband and I went to CentroOpenTable Diner Since 2011Dined on 5/3/2012My husband and I went to Centro for first time this week. It has own unique style , wonderfully dark and cozy. We loved it. The staff was very attentive.Don husband had build a burger and turned out to be enormous and I had the ahi dinner that was wonderful. Centro has the best selection of martinis: We tried 3 unique and fabulous Martinis.We would go back again and recommend Centro to friends.Special Features:
- If the food was as excellentCristyVIPDined on 4/21/2012If the food was as excellent as the service, I would have given Centro five stars across the board.Special Features:
- don't botherbetsybDined on 4/8/2012We went for easter brunch. We thought the food they had was good but it was the skimpiest buffet we have ever been to. So few choices and not great selection. The dessert table was a joke. tiny pieces of cake or small cookies. not impressive at all. We usually go in boston but thought we would try providence. The mimosa was not included and the choices were so limited. not worth the money at all. No shrimp, no salads, it was not what we expected.
- We just had grilled pizzaOpenTable Diner Since 2008VIPDined on 4/7/2012We just had grilled pizza & salad, but everything was very good. Great service, very relaxing.Special Features:
- Our first trip to this renewedWarren47VIPDined on 3/30/2012Our first trip to this renewed hotel restaurant and we were very pleasently surprised. I had a shrimp and fetticini dish and my wife had a meatless and red sauceless lasagna tht melted in your mouth. Frank, our waiter, was solicitous and helpful without being intrusive. Place was packed and we feared we wouldn't get in and out by our theatre time but no problem. Can't believe they fed o many so fast so well. Wine list ran from 3090 so plenty of options. Longer serving hours and availibility of sandwiches will make it a great place for after DD Cntr Events while waiting out traffic. We were very happy & will return
- I'm always a little concernedOpenTable Diner Since 2002Dined on 3/28/2012I'm always a little concerned when I dine at a hotel, but there is no need with Centro. The food was excellent and the service was exceptional. I sat at the bar and Sandra made me feel like I was the most important person there. She also makes the best drinks! I would definitely go again and recommend this place to anyone visiting Providence - hey, even if you live there, try Centro.Special Features:


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Opportunities at the Intersection of Bioinformatics and Health Informatics
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- Received 16 February 2000
- Accepted 4 May 2000
This paper provides a "viewpoint discussion" based on a presentation made to the 2000 Symposium of the American College of Medical Informatics. It discusses potential opportunities for researchers in health informatics to become involved in the rapidly growing field of bioinformatics, using the activities of the Yale Center for Medical Informatics as a case study. One set of opportunities occurs where bioinformatics research itself intersects with the clinical world. Examples include the correlations between individual genetic variation with clinical risk factors, disease presentation, and differential response to treatment; and the implications of including genetic test results in the patient record, which raises clinical decision support issues as well as legal and ethical issues. A second set of opportunities occurs where bioinformatics research can benefit from the technologic expertise and approaches that informaticians have used extensively in the clinical arena. Examples include database organization and knowledge representation, data mining, and modeling and simulation. Microarray technology is discussed as a specific potential area for collaboration. Related questions concern how best to establish collaborations with bioscientists so that the interests and needs of both sets of researchers can be met in a synergistic fashion, and the most appropriate home for bioinformatics in an academic medical center.
This work was supported in part by NIH grant G08-LM05583 from the National Library of Medicine.


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Erna Boone1, M. Kathryn Stewart2, Katharine E. Stewart3, Paul G. Greene3, Deborah M. Bledsoe4; 1College of Health Related Professions/Department of Respiratory and Surgical Technologies, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR; 2College of Public Health/Department of Health Policy and Management, Univeristy of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR; 3College of Public Health/Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, Univeristy of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR; 4Better Community Developers, Inc., Little Rock, AR
Background: Health care organizations commonly engage in organizational change aimed at improving the quality of their operations, including implementation of new programs. Achieving successful and complete organizational change is challenging. Not all attempts to implement and sustain change are successful. Change experts and health care practitioners agree that successful implementation of change is critically dependent upon the organization's readiness for the change. The purpose of this study was to measure organizational readiness for implementation of an evidence-based smoking cessation intervention in a small, faith-based, not-for-profit substance abuse treatment program in a southern U.S. city. Methods: Organizational leaders and associates (n = 26) completed a survey battery. Readiness measurements included assessment of both general and specific organizational change conditions and an appraisal of leadership styles. Respondents rated the organization's capacity/ability to implement each of five evidence-based cessation components. The results were compared to conditions suggesting high organizational readiness and to national norms. Recommendations to remedy readiness gaps and an implementation plan were provided to the organization's leadership. Results: A majority (< 60%) of the respondents agreed that organizational climate was conducive to general organizational change, but there was less agreement about member and institutional readiness. Regarding the specific change of adopting a cessation intervention, only 40% were knowledgeable about cessation in this special population. Most counselors (60%) believed they did not have adequate knowledge or skills to provide cessation counseling. Only 50% believed the organization had the capacity/ability to implement the Basic 5 A's. Other evidence-based components were rated less feasible. Leaders disagreed on their ability to provide some system strategies needed for implementation of evidence-based components. The predominant leadership style was "transformational". Conclusions: Results revealed several readiness gaps in key knowledge and resources that could sabotage implementation of a cessation intervention. However, leadership and operational strategies can be tailored to remedy these gaps. Organizations considering adoption of a cessation intervention should attempt to identify readiness gaps to help ensure successful implementation and sustainability of the proposed program.
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Associate Degree students (COTAs): After admission to the program: first year consists of completing prerequisite courses (Physics, API, APII, Stats, Psychopathology, and all required core (English, History, PHL, FA, English) courses. Core courses (English, History, Philosophy, Fine Arts and Religion) must be taken at Misericordia University. Core courses cannot be transferred from another school. See policy below regarding prerequisite courses.
Bachelor Degree Students and Associate Degree Students start the OT curriculum once all prerequisite courses have been completed. Associate Degree students must complete the first year of core and prerequisite courses (outlined above).


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If it weren't the adult friend's birthday, would you want to go to a potluck or lunch with this friend?
Seems to me anything that's okay in the regular course of a friendship is okay in marking a birthday.
If it weren't the adult friend's birthday, would you want to go to a potluck or lunch with this friend?
Seems to me anything that's okay in the regular course of a friendship is okay in marking a birthday.
I like it, thanks, and am also intrigued that you're able to "go get another drink" at work.
The problem with the college-grad shower is that the bulk of your friends presumably will also be just starting out, so you'll all just be buying each other ramen. If there's a grad who has a village of supporters besides his/her peers, then, sure, that village should go ahead and start a trend.
As for the math of the bridal shower, aren't all but the first wave of brides and grooms usually part of a mixed peer group, including single, paired, shacked up, married, ex married? And aren't there plenty of couples who together make less than some singles?
I am all for re-thinking the whole idea of showers (wrote a column to that effect a few weeks ago) but for anything that replaces it, the math has to work.
BTW--four people offering to host a shower? You have generous friends. Maybe combine all your advantages and have a shower that doesn't require people to spend anything on you, like a recipe shower. A little 50s-throwbacky, depending on how you handle it, but it could be useful if you and you rintended actually cook. You could also do used books, photographs (people bring shots of you with friends at various points of life, to be assembled in a photo book or online gallery) ... or you could pick a family or charity and celebrate your good fortune by outfitting them. I'm sure there are other ideas out there.
Actually, the columnnist is a 9-year-old dressed up as Gene Weingarten.
It's nobody's business. Carry on.
Since you seem to want to make the call/send the e-mail, force it by telling yourself you can't X (X being something you look forward to) without calling/emailing Y. You can even order your lists by priority, with call/email preceding something that really needs to be done.
I realize I should put "force" in quotation marks, because you're the one laying down the law, obeying it and enforcing it, which makes it about as toothless as a law can be. But, when you choose to respect it, it's a great method for introducing self-discipline where you're suffering from its absence.
Another motivator: if you send an email early, it can be a sentence or two, or even just a few words. "Hey, thinking of you--what's up?" or, "Free Saturday?" When you wait, you generally have to write more. (Though somethign terse after a months-long silence is still better than nothing at all.)
You're right, I shouldn't have blown past that, thanks.
You're right, if you're throwing your own party, you pay. But the writer's tone got me to look at the other angle. If a group of people socializes in a certain way, then celebrating a birthday in that same way doesn't get anything of mine in a bunch. I think before any of us judges an invitation as selfish, it's important to look at the context. Let's say you and your friends routinely meet for lunch. If the birthday person thinks one of those lunches would be a great way to mark her birthday, is she supposed to not invite you and wait till you think of it--or would it be okay for her to call and set up a lunch like any other of your lunches? Maybe she doesn't even expect you all to cover her tab; maybe she just wants to see you.
So, like I said, the what-is-with-people? approach applies sometimes, yes, but not always.
And, when the context says it does apply, you decline the invitation. That's what my original answer was going for--what's the context?
Thanks. Though I bet some people bought bottles out of shame at the idea of sharing their "house" wine. Yes that would be me. But, that would still be my choice.
"Awful" is bagging out on your sister's wedding after an hour.
"Awful" is also saying, "You can do what you want but unfortunately i'll have to make someone who can actually be there for me a bridesmaid insted of you."
Non-awful is to say, "I'm really hurt that you want to leave my wedding for a friend's dance recital." It's not about your sister's ceremonial title, so don't approach it as if it is.
If your sister responds dismissively to your feelings, -then- you can say, "If that's really the way you feel, then I hope you'll understand that I need to ask someone else to be a bridesmaid in your place. Being there is kind of the minimum requirement."
Good point, thanks. Lower standards are the right idea, but if that's too hard to implement, think volume: The more you're in touch with someone, the less you need to make every utterance a meaningful one.
I was going to say they stole it from Weingarten's desk, or that I was teaching them the value of saving their money to make important purchases and this is what they got, or that they shoplifted it, but then I realized the truth is better than anything I can make up. It's their dad's.
That was taken from a chat so long ago that I can't even remember suggesting it. But, the point then and now is, get whatever amuses you. I'd say to get a remote-control fart machine, in keeping with the highbrow theme of this chat, but if your beloved is truly The One, s/he will already have one. Possibly two, in the event one breaks.
The first part of this is easier to answer than the second part: You need to block the updates of the people who use social media to brag. That's not what -everyone- is in it for, that's just the way some people use it, and there's absolutely no reason to pay attention to them.
Some might say just to stay off these things altogether, which is a perfectly good and uncluttered solution--but if you see a lot of good amid the bad, then waste a little extra time on your feeds and tweak them till the majority of what they yield is useful.
Disclosure, I'm in the midst of this process myself, and I'm almost to the point where my feeds serve up news, links to great stories I would otherwise have missed, photos of people I care about and art that's suited to online delivery (music, video, photography ...).
The next question I'll have to answer now is about staying on track then there's a steady stream of thoughtful distractions available to one 24-7, but at least you won't have to worry about looking at the march of brags.
Carolyn, I love you dearly, but I have to chastise you for letting the first LW in Wednesday's column (the porn-hating GF; link) off so lightly. Trying to control what your partner reads and thinks is toxic behavior. If someone wrote in to say that his or her partner told them, "you will not listen to any rap music" or "you will not read any vampire novels," I think you would be citing to the Gift of Fear. Why should Wednesday's LW get a pass just because her controlling behavior relates to pornography?
Oh goodie, I get to chastise you for equating porn to rap music. Such a false equivalency.
Porn equates better to alcohol, gambling, or even sex itself. It's something -responsible adults- can enjoy in a way that isn't problematic, but overindulging or indulging recklessly: is linked to addiction, can wreak havoc on your self-esteem and your intimate relationships, may interfere with job performance, and can introduce ancillary problems like debt and legal problems.
And, if you read my column, then you know I advised her not to try to control what her BF reads and does, but instead to accept this is his way and decide whether she can live with him or not.
"Um, would you please wash your hands after you go to the bathroom?"
Also, consider putting a hand sanitizer (pump dispenser) in your bathroom. Shorten the distance between the two points.
--Skeeved in D.C.
Dunno where to start, except to ask if you're all fish in an aquarium, and you dictated the letter to your human keeper?
I'll try answering bottom to top:
-Your friends are right, Judy has no right to insist you and James can't date.
-You can, out of respect for Judy and her relationship, choose both to hold off for a while while Judy recovers from her attachment to/detachment from James, and, if you do start dating James, to honor the distance between him and Judy as necessary for Judy's peace of mind. Ideally she'll have eyes only for her fiance,* but reality says sometimes a person stays on your mind, and at some point you have to get on with your life.
-There is an appropriate time for you and James to try dating--after Judy is married makes for a nice milestone, but I'm not convinced that day should ever come,* or will. If it doesn't, then I'd say wait till Judy stops dwelling on him or when your interest in James outweighs your friendship with Judy, whichever comes first.
-About the aquarium. I might be way off here, but if you are all inhabiting a smallish world, then it may be that you and James are interested in each other because you've exhausted your interests in the other available people. Offices get like this, grad programs do, college buddies do, and tv shows that have been on the air for more than a couple of seasons ... anyway, all that means is that it's a good idea to question your interest in james before you act on it, just in case. Probably a sensible path with anyone but it's especially important when a circle of friends gets a bit incestuous.
Normally I'd agree--love just about any busybodyist rant--but it is in fact possible to hear 1. what a soul is doing in a bathroom and 2. not hear running water afterward and 3. be quite aware there's no hand sanitizer in the bathroom.
Ah, shared living.
Or, even creepier, some people feel pressured to glow/gloat (glowt?) publicly about gifts because their partners look for it and get upset if they don't.
And, too, some people just live out loud, and would have done so at any point in history, using whatever tools available to them.
I guess the upshot is, if you know your friends, then you have a good idea why you're seeing posts of their V-Day bouquets.
There's that, too, thanks.
Both of those outcomes are possible--in fact, I'm never sure saying anything will accomplish what the speaker intends. People are always the X factor. But, if you're as sure as you can be that he's doing this, then you might as well try, on the off chance he doesn't actually know how dirty even a clean bathroom is.
If you think he's punitive or unstable, then that's something else--and it involves finding a new housemate.
And do consider the hand sanitizer. Make it easy for him just in case.
And while I'm at it, instead of demonstrating how to load the dishwasher again and again, why not suggest that he load it while you watch, so you can "make sure he's doing it right"? I.e., approach him as someone who never learned some valuable, basic lessons about taking care of himself, be it due to a diagnosable condition or just negligent parents. It does happen.
Putting this out there as a PSA, but I might be inclined to go with the "better-than-nothing" solution if "nothing" remains a real possibility.
Is snorting coffee like alcohol, gambling and porn?
Hasn't had sex, right? or else his FB posting would take on new meaning.
A fine idea. And if that doesn't work, post in the kitchen another bit of English sloganeering, "Keep Calm and Carry On."
Reflexively, the first thing I want to leap on is the "make you feel" phrasing, since that's just a tar pit. The only way someone can "make" you feel anything is by taking away your choices.
Anyway. I think your point goes back to the issue of context that's hijacking this chat from the R-CFM. If you know your friends, you know that Susie posts a picture of Bo because she's a goofball and would just as easily post a picture of the collapsed souffle she perpetrated last night, and Sally posts a picture of Bo because she needs everyone to know She Was at the White House Last Night.
Hi there, I'm LW1 from today's column (Link). I just want to say that I find it absolutely fascinating to read the comments about my letter. I agree with some of what people have to day regarding the selfishness of what I was engaging in (now more than a year ago) with my former office crush. However, what I really find interesting is that the comments confirmed something I have always borne in mind when reading the columns, which is that there is SO much more to the story than what can fit in a letter, so commenters can only speak to what little the letter contains. Life is messy and doesn't fit in a few paragraphs. I wrote that letter when I was feeling terribly guilty about not fully loving my wonderful, warm, caring, smart, funny, and very dear to me boyfriend. I didn't WANT the crush, and admittedly engaged in bad behavior during the "emotional affair" (BTW, he never called it that, I called it that - that is a typo in the original letter). If I truly didn't want my BF I would have broken up with him, but my struggle was with truly loving someone yet still nurturing this (admittedly wrong and misguided) crush. So, I guess what I'm trying to say is, thanks to all the commenters, but it's never as black and white as a brief letter makes it appear. I'm not in junior high, I don't fear being alone, and my BF is a prize I want. All this makes me human... like the rest of you.
Yes, we're all human, and yes, life is a lot more complicated than any story that can fit in a letter. I get letters like yours occasionally, and people who see their letters in print sometimes go on to supply a missing part of the story that changes everything.
I want to see that in yours, but I don't. What I see is that you've changed your story since you wrote the letter. In the letter he's a "long-standing crush." Here he's just "my former office crush." In your letter, your BF was "the consolation prize," and here he's "a prize I want." And in this new update, there's an inconsistency: is it " not fully loving my ... boyfriend," or is it "truly loving someone"?
I'm not new to anger at me and at the comments-section crew, and sometimes we deserve it (though never all of the commenters; they're generally an even handed bunch and often it's just a handful who wade into outrageous waters on any given day). But here ...? The phrase "changing your story" is stuck in my head. If your feelings haven't genuinely changed since you wrote your letter, then you're not helping yourself or your boyfriend by defending your feelings for him.
Um. Not really, not if he expects his housemates to do all the work.
I got tired of typing "remote-control fart machine."
Please don't bring a gift. The donation is their way of accounting for people who are constitutionally incapable of showing up empty handed.
And yes, I realize the no-gifts request as well as the charity solicitation are both etiquette violations, but the etiquette doesn't take into account the groundswell of STUFF that accrues in the lives of kids from financially comfortable backgrounds (not rich, just anyone above scraping by). A more etiquette friendly approach might be to skip the big B-day party altogether (FWIW, child-development types see the child's age as a guideline for the right # of guests), but sometimes people have their reasons for inviting the whole class, and no kid of any age needs 20 gifts. Many, if not most, don't even want that many, whether they realize it or not.
Why does the "credit" (ew?) need to be in front of your friends? (And, on a completely different note, is there such a beast as acceptable bragging?)
To me this isn't about being boastful so much as being needlessly public. Okay, send a bouquet to someone's office -so a person can enjoy the flowers-, since often most waking hours are spent there vs home. But proposing on stadium Jumbotrons I thought was a fad that needed to die, not one that needed to be shrunk down to fit individual screens.
I think it's fine, even appropriate, for you not to contribute. You're not her friend anymore, the wedding is what exposed your friend as someone you don't actually like, and so there'd be no integrity in getting fake-misty just to get the Mom of Bride off your back.
If you feel obligated for some unforeseeable reason, though, you can tell a truth, if not -the- truth: "I saw my friend get exactly the wedding she wanted," or something to that effect.
Have you done anything more concrete than "wonder why"? I'm less interested in whether narcissism can be cured than whether your attraction to it can be exposed, understood and cognitively/behaviorally redirected toward healthier people and relationships.
"My bf has said he likes my son, enjoys their rapport and appreciates his efforts to help."
Okay. But does your son like your BF, enjoy their rapport and appreciate his efforts to help?
Given that most children are abused by someone they know, the idea of "more permanent housing" is one with potentially serious consequences for your son. And while it's probably not the case that you're letting an abuser pick up your son after school, just by the numbers, you did write almost your entire question from the perspective of how good this arrangement is for your BF, and only at the end do you mention being "mindful of my son"--and even then, listing your relationship in the same sentence, as if they have equal weight.
This might just be an accident of haste in composing your question, but, wow, your son needs to be the axis on which this entire household decision spins. Is he safe here? Does his mother have his welfare in the front of her mind? Or is she preoccupied enough by making her potential mate happy to be looking for all the wrong "red flags"?
When practical, talk to the child--even if you have to ask the parent, "Okay if I say hello to your little girl?" If you get a yes, then try to get to child height and ask about, say, the stuffed animal or drawing she has in her hand, or her dress, whatever. Ask nice, simple questions and let the child talk. It can take wound-up parents out of an angry moment and remind them how cute and small their children are. If it backfires and the parent won't let you talk, yells at you, etc., then you can put your hands up, say, "I understand," and, "Children are such a blessing," or something general and innocuous. Even in that case, the child sees and hears someone step in to help, which matters. (This isn't from me, but instead from those who have been in the child's place here.)
When possible, too, say something to -support- the parent. "Tough day?" All that stinkeye from fellow passengers could have had the opposite effect from the one you all intended. A young parent feeling pretty low and taking it out on a kid will arguably feel lower at all the eyeballs, and who's going to get the brunt of it then?
Thanks! And it does sound as if you need to tighten your circle of friends a bit. Not by doing anything drastic, but instead by being present as a rule for the ones you really care about, and declining guilt-free the invitations of those who feel more like acquaintances than friends.
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GREENUP COUNTY, Ky. (WSAZ) -- A man and a woman were arrested Friday on meth charges, and two children were removed from the home along Water Street in Greenup, according to information from Greenup County Sheriff Keith Cooper.
Nick Kintigos, 44, and Melissa Gillum, 26, both of Greenup, were charged with manufacturing meth and wanton endangerment. Kintigos also was charged with menacing, resisting arrest, possession of drug paraphernalia and first-degree possession of controlled substance.
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stationSyllabification: sta·tion
Pronunciation: /ˈstāSH(ə)n /
Definition of station in English:
1A regular stopping place on a public transportation route, especially one on a railroad line with a platform and often one or more buildings.
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- Bruno has to fly out from Madras, so next stop is the railway station to book his train ticket.
- We pass several Virginia railway express commuter stations, before stopping at Manassas.
- Many bus services finish at 7 pm, few buses stop outside train stations and passengers are forced to walk long distances to catch another bus or train.
2 [usually with modifier] A place or building where a specified activity or service is based: a research station in the rain forest coastal radar stations
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- The lease on the Hoy auxiliary coastguard station building, where they store their equipment is up for renewal in May.
- It aims at the development of a coastal radar station for marine surveillance.
- The new system at Burrington, north Devon, is the first of the National Air Traffic Services' 19 radar stations to be replaced as part of a nine-year upgrade programme.
2.1A small military base, especially of a specified kind: a naval station
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- In this way it was able to locate air bases and establish naval stations which would be invaluable if war occurred.
- Possibly the best thing about having military stations near your beat is the ability to visit and take a closer look.
- As is known, the ergonomic norm for continuous operation by command staff at a command and control station is five to seven hours.
2.2A police station.
2.3North American A subsidiary post office.
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- Now, what does the postal inspectors look at at the post office station before it comes to the recipient?
- It had two stores, a post office and telegraph station, wheelwrights, blacksmiths and a pound.
2.4Australian/New Zealand A large sheep or cattle farm.
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- Prince Harry is off to spend a few weeks on a cattle and sheep station, location unknown.
- With the help of the many Afghan cameleers it provided a much needed service to many of the isolated cattle and sheep stations.
- Stockman work with stock - animals and jackaroos are what Australian farmers are called that work on outback stations with sheep or cattle.
3 [with adjective] A company involved in broadcasting of a specified kind: a radio station
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- All six BBC local radio stations will be broadcasting from the roadshow venues and there will be the opportunity for people to meet some of the region's favourite broadcasters.
- The BBC local radio station is broadcasting full match commentary from 10.00 am to noon on Saturday.
- We are now officially the most listened to BBC radio station in our broadcast area.
channel, broadcasting organization;
4The place where someone or something stands or is placed on military or other duty: the lookout resumed his station in the bow
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- It's the kind of record you know you're going to buy twenty seconds into it but you stand at the listening station and sample every track anyway.
- Rockefeller's pews are pressed into duty as a staging station for the organ's pipes and sound boxes.
- If the patrol gains contact, a scout weapons team can respond and be on station within minutes.
post, position, place
4.1 dated One's social rank or position: Karen was getting ideas above her station
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- He is more interested in the bonds between people than their social or economic stations.
- Marrying above one's station has been the source of fairy tales, mythology, and Hollywood movies.
- It is not a far cry from thinking a person is beneath one's station to thinking a person's function is beneath one's station.
archaic condition, degree
5 Botany A site at which a particular species, especially an interesting or rare one, grows or is found.
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- Thus, the southernmost stations for the plant in natural habitats are on Virginia's James and Chickahominy Rivers.
- Photographs were taken of plants at both stations, however, and were deposited at the research center.
6 short for Stations of the Cross.
Example sentences
- The stations seem to have originated in the pious practice of pilgrims to the Holy Land who visited the sites of the life, suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus.
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Put in or assign to a specified place for a particular purpose, especially a military one: troops were stationed in the town a young girl had stationed herself by the door
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- We will continue to contribute to the purpose of stationing our troops there.
- He and the members of his International Rescue Corps are stationed at an Iranian military base in the city.
- France began stationing military personnel in French Polynesia in 1962.
put on duty, post, position, place;
establish, install;
Middle English (as a noun): via Old French from Latin statio(n-), from stare 'to stand'. Early use referred generally to 'position', especially 'position in life, status', and specifically, in ecclesiastical use, to 'a holy place of pilgrimage (visited as one of a succession).' The verb dates from the late 16th century.
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by director Debra Granik
On a park bench one afternoon, I read Daniel Woodrell's novel Winter's Bone from cover to cover. I hadn't done that with any book in a long time. I was in suspense to see how the story's protagonist, Ree, would survive. It felt like an old-fashioned tale, with a character I couldn't help but root for, and descriptions of a place that stoked my imagination as I tried to conjure Ree's world. Her circumstances are so different from my own that my curiosity was piqued.
To launch this project, we met with Daniel Woodrell in his home base in Southern Missouri and embarked on our first scout. I was aware that it was a geologically rich part of the country, with rolling hills and hollers above ground and an extensive system of caves and underground rivers below. So it already had a resonant, mythic quality for me, because of this above and below ground topography. We photographed homes, yards, roads, creeks and caves. The visual power of nature is manifest in the landscape filled with vines, brambles, thick woods and dramatically gnarled trees. In this first Missouri journey, we were also introduced to singers, storytellers, and folklorists steeped in Ozark culture. We also had an informative and disturbing discussion with the local sheriff, about what the meth problem has been like over the last two decades.
Two years later, we came back to a different section of the Missouri Ozarks to prepare for the film shoot. With the help of our local guide and location scout Richard Michael, we started by searching for a family living in a setting like the one described in the book. We knew we had to find a family who would let us see their house, their clothes, their objects, their dinner table, who would let us see them hunt, take care of their animals, and fix day-to-day problems as they arose. Eventually we found a family and neighbors who were willing to answer our questions, show us things, and advise us on the script.
In order to put on screen accurate details, we shot entirely on location on several families' properties. The costume designer Rebecca Hofherr exchanged garments with local people who were willing to trade pristine Carharts for well-used ones. Real life is frayed, frugal, dusted with soot from stoves, heavy dust from the hardscrabble surface of the earth in these Southern Missouri counties. We had to work with these potent forces of the environment.
The housing stock in this area has tremendous texture. Many houses are made from several different kinds of materials—wood, vinyl, stone, metal. And the geometry of these hand-built houses is interesting and unique. The production designer, Mark White, primarily used objects found in the locations, working from careful observation and visual notes on what he found. The dogs, cats and donkey which appear in the film belonged to their locations, and these four-legged actors were willing to saunter across the frame at random, and to greet the biped cast members authentically as they entered and exited.
By casting many roles with actors from the area, we had people correcting dialect and watching our backs in general, making sure we didn't go down any misguided paths. The active participation of the location families also helped the lead cast members to finesse the details. Many of the actors came from states neighboring Missouri—Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi. It was exhilarating to work watch Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Dale Dickey and the other cast members who came from elsewhere immerse themselves in the story and take on the rhythms and accents of the region. They watched and listened closely to what people did and how they spoke. Ultimately, the out-of-state cast blended with the Ozarks-based cast members.
The process of working on location spawned other changes in the script and casting. In the novel, Ree has two younger brothers, who we attempted to cast in a traditional way by seeing children with acting experience from the neighboring towns. Meanwhile, during rehearsals and auditions that we held on location, I would turn to the six year old daughter of the family who owned the property, Ashlee, and ask her if she could show me or the boys how to do certain things. Every time we reviewed these rehearsal tapes, I was drawn in by Ashlee's presence with Jennifer Lawrence playing Ree, and the way she could be in the house and on the land with a natural ease—she was literally at home on the set. The decision to cast her as Ree's youngest sibling was a last-minute change, and a lucky one for the production.
Originally the story didn't have music, but as we spent time in the Ozarks we kept hearing stunning music, a lyrical element in the fabric of Ozark's life, and we were determined to put that into the film. Daniel Woodrell brought us to a picking session at a friend's house, and there we met the singer Marideth Sisco and some of the other musicians who would eventually appear in the house party scene in Winter's Bone. We found the bar band, White River Music Company, through an audition process. These musicians led us to others, some of whose work is heard in other scenes. The composer Dickon Hinchliffe was inspired by the regional music and shaped his score around these Ozarkian idioms. The film's closing instrumental, "Hardscrabble Elegy," is the fruit of that process. Since the film wrapped, the musicians have recorded a collection of music from and associated with the film, which will be available soon.
Mountain regions have a history of outsiders representing them monolithically. The term hillbilly is often used against hill culture, and usually doesn't allow for much nuance. References to bootlegging and feuds come up pretty fast after the term hillbilly. The questions that pressed on us while researching this story and scouting for it centered around certain indelible stereotypes: what is a hillbilly, versus a person who lives in mountain country? What is the significance of debris in a yard? What is the reason, and what assumptions do we make about the person living in the house of that yard? We had to get to know that person. If the viewer doesn't meet that person and only sees the yard, do we perpetuate an image of a landscape that looks "trashy"? A yard filled with objects is photographically rich—endless depth of field, great colors and textures. Abandoned debris and trucks with plant life growing out of their windows, those things are inherently photogenic because they're both disturbing and beautiful. Objects become part of the landscape over time. But what about the tidy yard down the road? If we don't show both, have we just re-presented the region as a place with junky yards? These are the questions that we had to confront. Knowing the soul behind the yard helped a great deal. This is just one family, trying to make a go of it.
You can't go to an area with such an intense history and lore and not lock horns with symbols, cliches, stereotypes and sensitivities. And it's an ongoing challenge to navigate to some form of storytelling that chips away at the stereotypes and adds some new details to what's gone before. Winter's Bone depicts different aspects of Ree's life, not just her survival skills, or her resolve, but very disturbing parts of her life as well. Like children in many other settings, Ree witnesses adults in her life who struggle with addiction. In any life with limited financial resources, the prevalence of destructive substances like meth, and what that does to families, the general climate of violence, deceit and callousness, is painful to discuss, and even harder to include in a movie. From moonshine to marijuana to meth, marginal economies can easily run over a culture and wear it down, violently corrupt it. Who wants to take this on? But add to the challenge that moonshine and meth are gasoline on the bonfire of cliches depicting mountain culture. Thirty-five years after Deliverance, even a banjo can still be a loaded symbol. But through our trips down to Southern Missouri, banjos kept popping up in the most lyrical and alluring ways. Ultimately the banjo found its way into the film, offering notes of hope and perseverance. I came to think of it as a fresh start for that image.
Ree is focused on her commitment to guide her brother and sister through their childhoods. She is willing to fight to keep her family from falling apart. I see her as a lioness protecting her pride. She is also a teenager who experiences helpless feelings when adults around her make deadly choices, and are drawn down into a way of life that destroys them. She can't do much to get her dad out of the meth world, or help her uncle with his chemical dependency and nihilism, yet she still cares about them. That is wrenching for any young person. The only thing left for her is to try to be different.
Like many a movie hero, Ree must struggle. We don't get to see much of her teenage side. We never really get to see her have a good time with her friend Gail or flirt with boys. Throughout the story she is single-minded in her focus, because the search for her father is all-consuming. There is a deadline. In this heightened context, we see that Ree does not take "no" for an answer. In matters of justice, I love characters who don't take no. I want to know how they get that resolve. We may not know what fuels Ree, but it is exciting to witness a girl who shows this much strength of character. Heroes are often terse and aloof, and I guess that's what keeps one thinking—"hmm, why does she go on, why doesn't she give up? Where does this kind of determination come from?"
I am drawn to looking at characters who doggedly try to solve the puzzle of how to make their lives work. Often that involves a lot of hard choices. What wows me are people who soldier on within difficult circumstances. I want to see how they are going to do it. In some lives a person appears to make great strides, reach heights, and in other lives it takes an equal amount of resolve and effort to move a centimeter. The cycle of effort, obstacles, trying again...these are the lives that I admire and want to document and portray.
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You know the NAZIs were socialists right?Posted: 2011/02/02 Filed under: Musing, Politics | Tags: Libertarian, Politics 2 Comments
I'm a libertarian, sometimes I google the word. A lot of outsiders have us confused with somebody else (we aren't fascists), but many iof us use the wrong vocabulary.
How many times have you seen libertarians talk like this:
Governments the world over are becoming more and more statist and are trampling all over individual rights. Libertarians oppose the government's belief that is has the right to tax populations, wage wars implement social programs …
Ironically, when we talk like this we remind people of Nazis. I guess they see 'capitalism' with that warlike language and think "extreme right". It's doubly ironic in that people think Nazi's were right wing, even though they did all the classic left-wing stuff like a centrally planned monetary policy, banking, imports and exports, price and wage controls, restricted dividends, organized factories and mobilized for war.
In any case, talking about libertarianism is tough. We support free markets and some people will support us for this alone, but other people don't see the connection between a free economy, low prices, and pulling the world out of subsistance living.
The communication problem arises we we say that Libertarianism = free markets and then leave the listener to fill in the blanks. He only leaves with the impression that we simply don't care about anyone else (when in fact we care so deeply we're trying to free trade!)
Thats why I like Healing Our World by Dr. Mary J. Ruwart. Her book explains libertarianism the way it should be explained: In human terms rather than economic terms.
Here is my description of libertarianism, I think it captures the essence without being so stand-offish.
Libertarianism is a philosophy that emphasizes the rights to life, liberty, property. We support free markets and free trade, low taxes, and small government. "Live and let live" is a very libertarian but we're not hermits. Like anyone, we want nice neighborhoods, good wages, clean environments, law and order, good educational institutions, and medicine when we are sick.
How libertarians would achieve these objectives is different from other parties. Libertarians oppose any attempt to infringe individual rights, for example laws that forbid selling unpasteurized milk or a war-time draft. Libertarians believe (and history has shown) the greatest good for the greatest number of people occurs in the most free countries.
In practical terms, a libertarian government would slowly repeal victim-less crime laws (like drug laws) and bureaucratic red tape (like the gun registry). It would also repeal tariffs, regulations and subsidies, and leave the price setting to the market.
Long term, the laws governing the Canadian health, education and mail would be changed to no longer exclude private competition. Given a long enough timespan they might even become fully privatized. If that sounds extreme, don't worry; we certainly don't want to make drastic changes quickly. We're just letting you know these options are on the table.
So to summarize, here are some things libertarians support.
- Reduced taxes
- Cutting red tape
- Free trade
- Free markets
And here are some things we oppose
- Drug Control
- Gun Control
- Big Government
The trick is being clear about what changes and what will result. It's okay to hedge before mentioning radical changes that might upset — it's not okay to omit them. Talking about the current state of affairs (and their respective philosophies) is usually a sign you need to rewrite with more focus on what libertarianism will do — and besides, such talk is hopelessly negative.
Addendum (Feb 3rd 2011): I found The Advocates a blog that focuses on how to advocate libertarianism.
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You know what the party of the Neo-Nazi movement in Germany is called: the National Republican Party. Holy cow Republicans really are Nazis!
Do you know who America's highest profile libertarian (Ron Paul) had his picture taken with: a self described white supremacist named Don Black.
Of course you are aware that the third reich was financed by henry ford and prescot bush (father and grandfather of both presidents). Of course those guys are left winged….


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