07-08-2015, 10:49 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/05/opinion/sunday/my-own-private-baltimore.html?_r=0
I realize ten people could write essays about their home town and all ten could sound like totally different cities. However, it has always seemed to me Pat is a thoughtful person and gives relatively measured feedback. So I wonder, in the "love letter" to Baltimore (link above) if he recognizes a city he is familiar with or if it sounds like the ramblings of a lunatic.
Others may enjoy the article as well. It may cause you to soften your tone toward Baltimore in the smack forum or give you fodder to use there, depending on if the portrait charms or disgusts you.
If you've visited Baltimore let me know if you found the city described in that article. Pat - do you think it is accurate? (I am assuming you aren't going to tell me you live two hours away and are a fan but never go into the city.
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I realize ten people could write essays about their home town and all ten could sound like totally different cities. However, it has always seemed to me Pat is a thoughtful person and gives relatively measured feedback. So I wonder, in the "love letter" to Baltimore (link above) if he recognizes a city he is familiar with or if it sounds like the ramblings of a lunatic.
Others may enjoy the article as well. It may cause you to soften your tone toward Baltimore in the smack forum or give you fodder to use there, depending on if the portrait charms or disgusts you.
If you've visited Baltimore let me know if you found the city described in that article. Pat - do you think it is accurate? (I am assuming you aren't going to tell me you live two hours away and are a fan but never go into the city.
)
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
