The Power Teeter-Totter

[SARN Memo for August 4, 2010]

  1. Get Off the Teeter-Totter
  2. Resource


(drawing © Bret Hesla)

1. Get Off the Teeter-Totter

The top of this drawing is a sad picture: the power teeter-totter. One side is always up and the other is always down. Notice who’s on the bottom: us. That needs to change.

Get off the teeter-totter. Let’s stand on level ground—like the bottom of the drawing. We’re all the same.


2. Resource

The Patient Needs Fixing
Learn about the stereotype that keeps putting experts in charge rather than people using them to help get what they want for themselves.


Today’s Trivia Question:

What’s another common word for a teeter-totter?

(The answer will be published in the next Memo.)

Answer to July 28th Trivia Question: Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Question was: Who was the only American president to have a disability?

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