== Are you an elitist? = By Mark Morford

[madokie]

18 revealing ways to know for sure

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/09/12/notes091208.DTL&nl=fix

1. You don't talk like a normal person. Only normal people talk like normal people. Sarah "no questions please, I'm Alaskan" Palin, according to House Minority leader John Boehner, she talks like a normal person... if by "normal" you mean "chillingly antagonistic toward anything resembling progress or political insight or women's civil liberties."

2. According to the GOP, lower-middle-class voters with minimal educations really like it when people who thinkk they can run the most powerful nation on the planet and steer massive military juggernauts and immense economies and affect the destinies of millions, don't actually speak like they have any idea how the hell to do it. Honey, if the Bush years proved anything, it's that the dumber you sound, the more effective you are at leading the country. Into the sewer. Did you know this already? Typical elitist.

3. You are on a first-name basis with the sushi chef at Whole Foods.

4. You have been to Whole Foods. ...

[DemoTex]

1. " .. go straight for the absinthe .."

Amen, Brother Morford!

[lapislzi]

2. Guilty as charged

...heading for the absinthe.

Although I do indulge in occasional hobbit-fare in my reading material. I hope that doesn't tarnish my elitist credentials too severely.