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What can I say? It has been busy as hell lately. I have been shoehorning Spanish workbook pages and Polanyi's 'The Great Transformation' into my morning shifts at the computer lab in the library. Then there is all the Mac Weekly stuff, and those people would flay me alive to tick away on this site on Tues. or Weds. when there's so many glitches to be fixed in the paper. Even though I did last week.

I will move right along to the big event on campus. Ralph Nader came last Thursday, and gave a press conference in the Campus Center. Peter Gartrell asked him some questions, actually, although I'm not sure what Nader said. Shouldn't Peter get a recording device?? So anyhow, Nader then spoke at the Chapel for an admission of $5 for students, $10 for the general public. A bunch of Mac students protested outside and carried Kerry signs. My moral fiber felt weak after giving that man money.

Nader admitted during the talk that he had Republican lawyers, but kept harping on the Dems, demanding they step aside and let him slither onto state ballots.

So a couple hours later I had to meet my dad to get this textbook which had been left back in Wisconsin. We met at the Artist's Quarter in downtown St. Paul, where my dad's friend from the olden days, Lucia Newell, was singing jazz with her group. They have just released a CD and it's a damn fine one.

So there was another old friend of my dad's there, a cynical, middle-aged Republican, whom I told about seeing Nader. Nader's a great human being, he intoned. "He's appealing to your noblest instincts, Daniel," he said. And then came the kicker.

He told me he'd given Nader's campaign a good deal of money.

That, essentially, tells you everything you need to know about the Nader situation.

Posted by HongPong at September 24, 2004 01:46 AM
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