People You Hate to Love
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
This man is a nasty piece of work, but you have to admire the shear ballziness that he has exhibited in the past few weeks by appointing Burris to the Senate.
It's kind of like watching the villains in pro-wrestling, which I did when I was rooming with a wrestling fan. You hate them, but you love them, because they are so much more engaging than the heroes.
Of course, the adult in me realizes that pro-wrestling is really primarily theater, and pro-wrestlers don't have the power of life and death, as governors do with pardons, or just through the vicissitudes of budget process, which frequently determine who shall live and who shall die.
The Illinois legislature should dump him as soon as possible, and rationally he should never be allowed near the public sphere again, but my yetzer hara* will miss him.
Cross posted from 40 Years in the Desert.
*Yetzer hara is Hebrew for one's evil inclination, and yetzer hatov is the inclination to do good. Imagine if you will, going to a store, and paying with a $10 bill, and getting change for a $20. When you correct the cashier, it is your yetzer hatov, and when you walk out of the store calling yourself a moron for not keeping the money, that's your yetzer hara.
This man is a nasty piece of work, but you have to admire the shear ballziness that he has exhibited in the past few weeks by appointing Burris to the Senate.
It's kind of like watching the villains in pro-wrestling, which I did when I was rooming with a wrestling fan. You hate them, but you love them, because they are so much more engaging than the heroes.
Of course, the adult in me realizes that pro-wrestling is really primarily theater, and pro-wrestlers don't have the power of life and death, as governors do with pardons, or just through the vicissitudes of budget process, which frequently determine who shall live and who shall die.
The Illinois legislature should dump him as soon as possible, and rationally he should never be allowed near the public sphere again, but my yetzer hara* will miss him.
Cross posted from 40 Years in the Desert.
*Yetzer hara is Hebrew for one's evil inclination, and yetzer hatov is the inclination to do good. Imagine if you will, going to a store, and paying with a $10 bill, and getting change for a $20. When you correct the cashier, it is your yetzer hatov, and when you walk out of the store calling yourself a moron for not keeping the money, that's your yetzer hara.
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Gov. Spellcheck certainly has made my former home state an interesting place, hasn't he?
January 2, 2009 7:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually. I just hate him. I do not find him entertaining. He's obstructive to progress due to to his delusional state. He's the kid who tells you he's not stealing while he is taking your candy right in front of you. He belongs in pro-wrestling, not the highest office of any state, although he might make a better governor in Alaska then the one they have.
January 3, 2009 2:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
' He belongs in pro-wrestling,'
No, he doesn't. Even Vinnie Mac has higher principles than that.
January 3, 2009 9:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
I understand the words "Vinnie Mac" and "Principals", but I do not understand their presence in the same sentence.
;)
January 3, 2009 10:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
Lemme tell ya somethin' Matthew Saroff -- if the Nature Boy wanted to make Harry Reid seat a senator, I'd just hop on my jet plane, fly the free skies, wheelin' and dealin' I'd land in DC, kiss all the girls and make 'em cry and then me and the Horsemen would have a little word with little Reid.
Blago ain't got nothin' on the Natcha Boy! Whooooo!
January 3, 2009 4:54 PM | Reply | Permalink