Sunday, March 14, 2004
and now it's time for...'hey, hey--guess what i learned today?!?!' ok, i didn't technically learn this today--i learned it a few days ago; sue me. so, i learned that the president likes to crack a joke from time to time, and is not bad at it. here he is, as quoted in national review: 'The other party's nomination battle is still playing out. The candidates are an interesting group with diverse opinions: for tax cuts and against them; for NAFTA and against NAFTA; for the Patriot Act and against the Patriot Act; in favor of liberating Iraq and opposed to it. And that's just one senator from Massachusetts.'
speaking of that senator and ridiculous things that either he or people related to him say, here is his wife (also quoted in NR): 'I think he's a man who likes complexity, understands it, and doesn't shy away from looking sometimes as though he is saying one thing and doing another when in fact, anybody who understands this knows exactly what he means. I think only people who like simple notions or simple solutions--well, simplification, let's say--would expect that to be so. I find complexity interesting and so does he. And we do live in complex times.'
what? i'm not really sure what all that means, but i do have one request. let's please not abuse the terms 'simple' and 'complex', both of which i find neat. i'm sure you like 'complexity', teresa heinz kerry, and enjoy trying to reflect that in your oratory. but if you're going to speak garbled english that doesn't make much sense, would you mind if we simpletons just call it 'garbled english that doesn't make much sense'?
speaking of that senator and ridiculous things that either he or people related to him say, here is his wife (also quoted in NR): 'I think he's a man who likes complexity, understands it, and doesn't shy away from looking sometimes as though he is saying one thing and doing another when in fact, anybody who understands this knows exactly what he means. I think only people who like simple notions or simple solutions--well, simplification, let's say--would expect that to be so. I find complexity interesting and so does he. And we do live in complex times.'
what? i'm not really sure what all that means, but i do have one request. let's please not abuse the terms 'simple' and 'complex', both of which i find neat. i'm sure you like 'complexity', teresa heinz kerry, and enjoy trying to reflect that in your oratory. but if you're going to speak garbled english that doesn't make much sense, would you mind if we simpletons just call it 'garbled english that doesn't make much sense'?
