Manana is just banana with an m, but maņana is a way of life.
Phoebe sent me an email today which said, in its entirety:Leading Intellectual Slavoj iek
That was it. Funny! The dude (who is the very energetic crazy guy with a speech impediment from the extras of Children of Men) supports Barak Obama, among the current candidates, although he's ideally have someone "to the left of Obama". The whole interview is over here. I like Obama. I'm not even sure that i'm not an Obama fanboy. How embarrassing. At least i'm not horrified by any of the other candidates. I mean, not any more horrified than the sort of background horror that i associate with all politicians.
Lemme tell you about Pete Hickey, the "tinpot bureaucrat" who who forced us to move the VW Bus into the garage. He ran unsuccessfully for Michigan's congress recently as a Democrat. I heard about that and thought, "Hey, i feel like i even know this guy! I'd vote for him!" but then i remembered him "pretending" not to hear me saying that the van is broken and doesn't run. That's fundamentally dishonest. I told him that i was slightly insulted that he'd automatically expect me to misrepresent the status of the vehicle just to "comply" with "code". I will not lie (said me) to him, in court, or in other ways. He seemed a little bit surprised.
Back to today: Karen was ill. She slept for over a dozen hours. While the kids were awake, he was down here for perhaps an hour and a half. Amazing. I was so happy to let her sleep. Everybody needs to do that once in a while, especially when they're sick. The kids were good for me. But i've discovered that there are two kinds of people in the world, those who can keep their houses clean all the time, and normal people.
Finally, you know that "verbal" communication? Well, we've managed to get our kids to say some of the right things during day to day interactions. Katrina said something like "I don't like this video. Robots is better." Houston responded "I do not agree with you." Awesome. A personally neutral declarative statement. So then Houston said "Look Katrina! It stopped raining!" Katrina responded in "nyeah-nyeah" singsong: "I do not agree with you, I do not agree with you!" It drove Houston nuts. I laughed and reminded the kids that they''re stupid worthless good for nothing idiots. Or something. I don't remember exactly.
I thought Obama was the left bookend. You mean to tell me there are people what are “lefter?” Doubtful. And what of Pete Hickey,T.B.? Is there more to the story following this visit? I’d also like to point out that you are starting to show your inner admiration for originalist conservative viewpoints by so clearly demonstrating your distaste for government intrusion into your life regarding things that are really none of their business. I KNEW we were political kin! :)
-- Eric (Email) - 01 April '08 - 16:44iek describes himself as a Marxist communist, so sure, there’s lefter than Obama. Obama isn’t even a socialist, just too socialist for some*. *Eric
-- juanito - 01 April '08 - 21:33