Yeah. Jesse Ventura's an idiot, and Republicans are evil.
Seriously -- what was a memorial service supposed to look like for a dedicated public servant who defended the poor and argued for national health ("of course we pay for the sick who can't pay for themselves -- that's what we're about," he once said)? Norm Coleman says he wants equal time. For what? To talk about how he wants to knock the walkers out from under the elderly ladies on the streets of Saint Paul?
Every selfish conservative in the country is mad because Wellstone's finally getting heard loudly and clearly and -- lo and behold -- his issues are starting to sound like they not only make sense, they're axiomatic. Of course we support labor unions and take care of our poor. That's what we're about.
And while adopting those issues might be good for the economy at large -- because, well, look at Norway, Finland and Sweden, whence came Minnesota's once beautifully radical politics -- they are not good for, say, the Diane Feinstein/Norm Coleman/Joe Biden/Walter Mondale (sorry -- who started funding the Contras first? Carter was his name, right?) stock portfolio.
I knew Mondale's kids, Ted and Eleanor. They lived in North Oaks, a suburb of St. Paul, the highest per capita suburb in Minnesota. They grew up around Ayn Rand freaks. We are in sorry, sorry shape.
I'm sorry if I sound like I've gone crazy. I was supposed to go to a Halloween party, but the traffic in Hollywood is gridlocked. So I'm sitting at home, listening to Billy Bragg. As if I needed to be radicalized.
Thanks for posting that thing of my daichi. It meant a lot to me.
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Thanks, dai.
Judith: can you make some sense for us about this brouhaha over Wellstone's service?
Posted by: david | October 31, 2002 4:18 PM
Yeah. Jesse Ventura's an idiot, and Republicans are evil.
Seriously -- what was a memorial service supposed to look like for a dedicated public servant who defended the poor and argued for national health ("of course we pay for the sick who can't pay for themselves -- that's what we're about," he once said)? Norm Coleman says he wants equal time. For what? To talk about how he wants to knock the walkers out from under the elderly ladies on the streets of Saint Paul?
Every selfish conservative in the country is mad because Wellstone's finally getting heard loudly and clearly and -- lo and behold -- his issues are starting to sound like they not only make sense, they're axiomatic. Of course we support labor unions and take care of our poor. That's what we're about.
And while adopting those issues might be good for the economy at large -- because, well, look at Norway, Finland and Sweden, whence came Minnesota's once beautifully radical politics -- they are not good for, say, the Diane Feinstein/Norm Coleman/Joe Biden/Walter Mondale (sorry -- who started funding the Contras first? Carter was his name, right?) stock portfolio.
I knew Mondale's kids, Ted and Eleanor. They lived in North Oaks, a suburb of St. Paul, the highest per capita suburb in Minnesota. They grew up around Ayn Rand freaks. We are in sorry, sorry shape.
I'm sorry if I sound like I've gone crazy. I was supposed to go to a Halloween party, but the traffic in Hollywood is gridlocked. So I'm sitting at home, listening to Billy Bragg. As if I needed to be radicalized.
Thanks for posting that thing of my daichi. It meant a lot to me.
Posted by: judlew | October 31, 2002 11:07 PM
And thank you for the article and your comment judlew, it's an example of what blogging can bring.
Posted by: david | October 31, 2002 11:09 PM