Thursday, November 09, 2006
A Plea For Pepe
Although we all have divergent views on some substantial issues, no one perhaps is quite so gloriously locally divergent as Pepe. He marches on bravely, firing scorn and disdain from Soc & Friends to Enemies of Soc, trashing Ricains, live or dead, and giving the Culture of the Bill of Rights a mighty middle finger from the heart of the Big Easy. It is a hard task, it is a thankless task, here so far from the Pale of Chomskiana or the Vale of Huntingtonia. He is alone, friends, and so desperately alone.....So, why do we not encourage more of his brethren to enter FCP and join in battle beside him? Why do we not encourage him to bring in a phalanx of Red and Brown to provide some brawn and beef to his currently meagre ranks?. JJ, is there no one who will come to his aid? Pepe, do all who broke bread with you on the Left Bank now refuse to help an old comrade? Is there no Justice on this Earth?
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AA, I have tried to court other lefties to our blog here because for a while there it was taking on the character of a John Birch Society meeting with each of us trying to outright each other.
Pepe has been the only one to consider touching us with a ten-foot pole and for that I am grateful.
Not sure why it should be me to recruit lefties, though.
Well, it was as much an inquiry if Pepe did not know anyone who could ally with him as suggesting you recruit one. I would gladly recruit some, except for a few wee problems.
First, I have been doing my damndest not to excite Canuckian passions. So, thus far, the number of enraged folk I've left behind is one highly educated Islamothug and a TuckerCarsonish prim nitwit. None too close to crap where I eat, but close enough that there is no desire to draw them closer.....Call it the Moral of Minnesota.
Second, those few outside of academia who I've met and might fill the bill are neither very smart, nor particularly anxious to leave the sanctuary of the choir.
Pepe would, I think, be in a far better position to judge the caliber of his comrades than I, or you.
Oh well, it would be interesting to see variations on the theme unfold.
Yeah, the John Birch Months were no fun. Although I'd pegged it as as much Ayn Rand as John Birch.
John Birch was a lot smarter. Anyhow, I see your difficulty and unwillingness to go unanonymous with this given your present State.
Why not a moderate friend like from your Houston years? Of how about that Dartmouth Womyn's Studies/Math twat that doesn't eat gluten because it suffers (or does he get sympathetic yeast infections?) and thinks giving kids Stanley the Steamshovel creates global warming or whatever?
First, I have been doing my damndest not to excite Canuckian passions.. ...Call it the Moral of Minnesota.
Machiavelli would agree, AA. I do the same. The so-called Market Place of Ideas isn't.
Yesterday, early in the morning, I sauntered out of the office in search of yet another Big-Ass Coffee. I happened to run into a French instructor. He said, "How are you doing today?"
I responded, "I'm searching for coffee. Things will be better then."
Then he pegged me for being bourgeois and said, "That's all you have to worry about? Getting coffee?"
I responded, "Yes, I'm comfortable and saucy, and there's not a worry in the world. I need coffee. Otherwise my Worldview will have to change."
He smirked, turned and continued walking, satisfied that he exposed yet another Kapitalist Koffee Searcher.
Politics and sex should be saved to learn about on the internet and in the streets. And Sartre was right about one thing: hell is other people in the morning, or at breakfast.
Well put, mft.
AA, are you alienating all of the PacNW already?
No, unless two souls constitute "The Pac NW". But, one day, Inshallah, I shall!
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