A Brief Note On Politics

[rax]

I have basically stayed out of the fray on the US election, as it's
probably obvious from my vegan-biker-dykeness who I am voting for (Obama)
and why (his stated platform agrees with what I want in more places than
McCain's does, even though neither of them is really thrilling). Recent
events, however, have twisted my brain into a pretzel, and I have found
a convenient conspiracy theory to believe so that my mind can get back
into a normal shape. The theory is this: Sarah Palin is actually an
elaborate legal fiction devised by Tina Fey, who is using the 2008
Presidential Election as her project for being jumped into OULIPO.
Neither "John McCain" nor "Sarah Palin" contains the letter e --- screw
Troopergate, I say we immediately demand the extradition of George Perec.
Barack Obama (no e!) was forced to choose JoE BidEn over Hillary Clinton
to show that he stands with the majority of Americans on issues of
tremendous importance, like preventing the take-over-the-world schemes
of absurdist French poets. There we go! Now I can sleep at night.

Obama: Tough on absurdist FrEnch poEts! ChangE AmErica nEEds.




....{\tiny well \emph{I} think it's funny}

Comments

[baniszew.livejournal.com]

I for one welcome our absurdist french poet overlords!

(Though I do not welcome McCain and Palin.)

[sovay]

Neither "John McCain" nor "Sarah Palin" contains the letter e --- screw
Troopergate, I say we immediately demand the extradition of George Perec.

*snerk*

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

*helpless cackling at work*

[circuit-four.livejournal.com]

I, too, choose to reject your reality and substitute my own.

Also, note that "ouxpo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouxpo)" is not currently claimed as a Livejournal account... *tempt* I'd heard of Oulipo but never read up on them in detail. falabala will be very pleased to see their list of techniques, when I see her next -- and since she's me, that's right now! n.n

[circuit-four.livejournal.com]

Also, you're making me heartbreakingly nostalgic for a character I've never gotten to play (http://www.puzzleboxmuck.dreamhosters.com/wiki/index.cgi?Characters/Ivy).

[rax.livejournal.com]

That's... actually really adorable :)

[rax.livejournal.com]

I am beginning to think that every LiveJournal not belonging to someone
I have met is actually just you. :) I'll follow the requisite Chain Of
C4 Content after work.

just saying.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Shall we do Fluorocrash as an Oubapo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oubapo)-style project?

[damerell.livejournal.com]

It wasn't quite obvious, you might have given up in disgust at the choice between evil and totally evil, or might be one of those people who refuses to vote for any party that keeps an electoral system going that artificially favours existing parties - the US's two-state "democracy" is an even bigger farce than ours, even before they start fiddling the votes. I won't vote Labour to keep the Tories out even though the lack of PR means it's tactically best.

[rax.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm bad at getting rid of a particular flavor of idealism. I want the less-bad one to be _good_! Maybe if I want it hard enough, it will happen!

[oonh.livejournal.com]

A troupe of absurdist french poets was apprehended in an underground foreign-policy-writing enclave just outside Denver.

[ab3nd.livejournal.com]

Are you sure absurdist poets are not responsible for our current foreign policy? I find the possibility oddly reassuring.

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

This makes me smile, as virtually nothing else about the election has. ^_^
Why are you voting for Obama? Being in the deepest of blue states means never having to cast your ballot for no stinkin' lesser evil. I've voted Green the last four elections, and intend to continue doing so until MA becomes a swing state, or the Greens themselves get elected, or the American republic collapses, whichever comes first.

[circuit-four.livejournal.com]

Uh, dear? Maybe she's like me and thinks the Greens have done a lousy job of building itself a party structure, cringes at Carla Howell, and doesn't want to vote for a guy whose policies all involve Yogic Flyers? :)

I hate to say it, but there's nobody in this race I'd vote for gladly. There are probably folks I'd trust in the office, but they're all, yanno, teaching and writing and stuff. :p

Not to denigrate third parties in general. There have been people in the past I could get enthusiastic about. And I don't dislike Obama myself, though I know he's not gonna advance us significantly towards the world we both want.

Guess I'm voting straight Meadow Party again. Ack-thbbptt.

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

"Yogic Flyers" is a much better defense policy than "preemptive war". Not least because it's almost infinitely cheaper. :)

[circuit-four.livejournal.com]

Well, at least their candidate had a respectable freakin' education (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hagelin)...

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

Heh. ^_^ Can I say that "Global Country of World Peace" sounds like something poorly translated from an Asian language? I imagine the GCWP sending some earnest guy in a suit to try and talk Mothra out of eating Tokyo...

[circuit-four.livejournal.com]

Actually, how much have you read about Bhutan? You of all people probably know *just* where I'm going with this one, but I'll spoil it and say... GNH?

[rax.livejournal.com]

Mostly see my response to damerell but with an additional
dash of "it's people like me voting Democrat that let you vote for
weird things safely." :) C4 also has a point in that the other ballot
denizens aren't exactly more palatable, they just make me want to wash
out a different portion of my mouth.

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

Let me turn that around on you: You voting democrat ensures that the greens (and other third parties) can safely be ignored, and that the democrats will never be more innovative, more honest, or much further to the left than they are now. :)
I think the greens would be a disaster in office, but they'd be a different kind of disaster than the status quo -- which is such a disaster that we will be cleaning up after its failures for the rest of our lives.

[sethg]

By the time that one Democrat and one Republican have risen to the top of their respective heaps of slime, it's too late to influence the general direction of either party by voting in the Presidential election. You have more leverage during campaigns for lower-level offices, especially primary campaigns. That's how the radical right took over the Republican party.

[rax.livejournal.com]

I both agree with you and _love_ your icon. "Get involved in local politics" is on my long-term todo list, though it will probably be a while...

[friode.livejournal.com]

I'm not clear on exactly where the district lines are, but both Jehlen and Provost have managed to respond to me in ways that make them sound like human beings when I've written to them, if you're in their area.

[circuit-four.livejournal.com]

Also, more props for the line "being jumped into OULIPO." Best choice of words I've seen all week... <3

[rax.livejournal.com]

Being jumped out of OULIPO is clearly much worse, since even death doesn't cut it...

[circuit-four.livejournal.com]

Now I have to try and do something with that idea... The mind reels. o.o

[rax.livejournal.com]

I may work that into the sequel to de Grainville's _The Last Man_ I've
been taking notes on for the last week. (You know, another Copious Free
Time project. And just to warn you, I'm told the Wikipedia page on the
book is utter crap and wrong; I haven't gone and looked yet, myself.)
There's totally a novella in "What if the man who received the story of
the end of the world, including spoilers for how to get into Heaven based
on where to stand after the Resurrection, were _____?" I had been playing
with various values of _____; if I wanted to rock the Oulipo thing,
I would fill it in with Italo Calvino. "To get jumped out of Oulipo,
I had to write a new section of _Invisible Cities_ about New Jerusalem
by traveling back in time from the Rapture, which I snuck into based
on advice from a blood-winged spirit of time. That talked to me in a
mirror. In a cave." ...eh, I think I'll stick with one of the other ones,
you can have OULIPO. :)

[circuit-four.livejournal.com]

Nah, the ADD Wheel has spun. Now I'm more into making "jumped in" and "jumped out" into an ECG mechanic...

[ceruleanst.livejournal.com]

When asked to name a vowel she personally has ever avoided using, Palin responded, "Oh, gosh, you know, basically, in our country's history, I always, I think it is important, with having sought to try any and all of that kind of thing, or not, so, truly, it's crucial to affirm that, and such as."

[rax.livejournal.com]

That's sufficiently believable that I had to go find some text where
she used the letter E before I could exhale. Luckily, it didn't take
too long. :)

[circuit-four.livejournal.com]

NEVER let anybody tell you that you aren't awesome. o.o

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

Love this post :)

[badoingdoing.livejournal.com]

This puts me in mind of "the game of four": you try to talk with each word of size four or less. It is very hard, for me.