It’s an easy target, but still an amusing read, if you find borderline personality disorders amusing:
Ralph Nader’s Time Magazine interview.
Proving that constant exposure to money, more than anything else, removes people completely from reality. Best quote:
By the time the thousand-page monstrosity of complexity and ambiguity gets to his desk, it’s going to be a shred of what the majority of doctors, nurses and the people in this country want — which is full Medicare for all.
I don’t mean to nitpick, but has Nader been paying any attention to anyone outside of his 14 friends who are doctors? Sentiments among the medical community are mixed about this issue–and I’m softpedaling reality here.
Wow. I will at least give the headline writer some props here for a headline that works on many, many levels.
And I will give Nader props for making me laugh out loud at the premise that we can all be saved from ourselves if only YOKO ONO gets involved! Yeah, that’s what this current cluster has been missing–an aging, irrelevant performance artist. It’s all so clear to me now.
September 23, 2009 at 4:53 pm
I took time to read the article and thought you described it perfectly – personality disorders. The idea of his book makes me laugh too – especially with Cosby involved.
September 23, 2009 at 5:57 pm
I’m “the people”, and I want Nader to stop pretending he speaks for me, or for anyone outside his little PIRG ghetto.
September 24, 2009 at 1:53 pm
How does Yoko Ono fit into the group?
I wanted to have more women than I could find who were older and quite well-known. She brings moral sentiments and aesthetics. Aesthetics is a very understressed dimension of civic action: music, song, beauty, posters, logos, all these things.
Street puppets. How could he forget street puppets?