gallows humor

Ethan:

> Now we all know Lacny is not going to go whup
> Nader's ass

That much is certain. Sam Friedman has nothing to fear. As a Marxist, my
crabby/curmudgeonly disdain for juvenile, individualistic acting-out extends
to political assassination. Not everyone shares these scruples, however,
which is why what I said about Nader needing Secret Service protection is at
best a half-joke mixed with hefty portions of sound practical advice.


> For one thing, we know Ralph could take him out
> with one power-packed blow

I'm not sure about this one. Nader is a good deal taller than I am, but he's
also lean. The determining factor would be whether my heftier bulk would
amount to an asset or a handicap.

I once had dinner sitting next to the man, and through most of it he
conversed with a liberal lawyer who was sitting across the table from me.
(This was after his 1996 run, when I had supported  him wholeheartedly -- 
not coincidentally, I had yet to do any kind of organizing in my life -- and
well before his 2000 run, when my attitude toward him was lukewarm to say
the least, and by which time I had done some organizing.) The lawyer said
that Nader had inspired him twenty-five years before in giving the
commencement speech at the lawyer's University of Michigan law school
graduation. Nader responded by saying, "Yes, and so-and-so from the audience
stood up and asked a question about such-and-such," except that the
so-and-so and the such-and-such were precise names and details. Considering
that this was coming from a man who no doubt gives hundreds of speeches a
year, and was about an obscure event decades before, his picture-perfect
memory was astounding, even a little disconcerting. Nader's greatest asset
is his intellect, above all. Later in the meal he broke a tooth on an
especially dense dinner roll.

But that is neither here nor there. I suppose it's too much to expect people
on this list to appreciate my jokes when they're sour, morbid, and even a
little tasteless. But the subject is not a lighthearted one. People's lives
and well-being are at stake.


- - - - -
John Lacny

People of the US, unite and defeat the Bush regime and all its running dogs!



"[C]apital comes dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and 
dirt."
--Marx, Capital, Vol. 1, Chapter 31

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