February 24th, 2008
Dear Great, Great Uncle Ralphie.
Ralph Nader, like the child who doesn’t want to play hide and seek yet never hesitates to go around telling Sammy where Mary is hiding. Like that child, he is changing the rules of the game while not really being affected by the results. Like that child, Ralph, quite aware what he does could be at the expense of a nation, has jumped in to the burning ring of fire.
His time is over. Not exactly irrelevant, he is like a tick on my dogs tail, he has to be addressed for the harm he could do even though the likelihood of real harm is pretty slim. It’s like he hasn’t noticed the people are showing up again, demanding real answers for themselves. The people no longer need Ralph Nader. We can thank President Bush for that.
I give him credit, at least he didn’t do what most of the generation of LSD and protest marches, and the end of the generation before them did,”Turn on, tune in, drop out“. I thank him for not following in the footsteps of his his contemporaries. I thank him for not giving it up when things got rough, when things didn’t turn out like everyone thought they should after the protests against the war, the marches against racism, and the essays on corporatism - long before it was called corporatism. When all that did not bring immediate success or change in policy, they all quit, headed to the hills, some eventually became part of the problem. Ralph Nader didn’t, and I thank him for that.
We can take over from here though. My generation will not give up so easily, are not as likely to head for the hills.We are better equipped with a large body of knowledge at our fingertips – so what if most of it comes off the internet - at least thirty percent of it is accurate.
Great Great Uncle Ralphie….please !! We can handle this.
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The rest, without attempted sagaciousness, is just for fun.
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For those who have totally messed up their life with their online presence, and I know some of you have, I’ve seen your FB and My Space pages, there is a solution. The Reputation Defender.
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And for you there who want to let someone know, though you know love is all you need, you gave them something else, Jezebel points out a site where you can send an anonymous card to your lovers to let them know you might have given them an STD. in Spot.
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A quickie stolen from Think Progress, which I hate to mention here as it might cause the more conservative of you to head for the blogging hills, but there ya go, like you didn’t already guess what “left of most lines” meant, even if you’ve never really read any of my posts completely I think you probably got the general idea.
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Peace
