Re: Ooops...

Yoon Ha Lee sikayal:

> On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, David Peterson wrote:
>
> Er...statistical point...as pointed out in "Boondocks," actually: if
> Nader got, what, 3% of the vote (17% in Tompkins County, where Ithaca is,
> but that's pretty typical <G>) and Bush and Gore both got 40+% of the
> vote, wouldn't it make more sense to throw stones at those who were
> "foolish" enough to vote Bush?
Yes.  Irony: I had a hard time deciding whether to vote for Nader or Bush,
since I hated Gore and disagreed with all of his policies, but managed to
agree w/ either Nader or Bush on a few.

> (Okay, no amount of rhetoric is *ever* going to make Dubya look
> smart--the Cornell Daily Sun devotes plenty of pages pointing this
> out--but he's not Vlad the Impaler.  Or Stalin.  Or Tamurlane.  Or
> Richard Nixon.  Or Nero.  Or...or....)
Hey, don't diss Vlad the Impaler!  He's regarded as a folk hero in
Romania, and he was a wonderful leader that defeated the Turks and
solidified the government in Transylvania.  Only his enemies (mostly Turks
and Hungarians) got impaled.  Most of his bad rep comes from Bram Stoker's
choice to make him the basis for Count Dracula.

Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
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