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December 10, 2008
Too bogged down to blog about a guy whose name I can't pronounce!
I'm hoping readers will bear with me for the next few weeks. I'm in the middle of a big renovation project and time is of the essence, which leaves little time for blogging. However, just to show I care about what's going on in the real world, I actually took time out of my busy schedule to learn how to pronounce the name of the Illinois governor who was arrested for trying to sell Obama's Senate seat on ebay or something. (Regular commenter Chocolatier emailed me the link to the listing, but frankly, $99 million-plus is a bit steep!) The Illinois Governor's name looks unpronounceable, but it's pronounced "blog-GOY-a-vitch" -- which sounds like the son of a Gentile blogger... Plus, he's Serbian! Whether anyone has examined his birth certificate I don't know. However, it's worth noting that Hitler got bogged down in the Balkans too -- so perhaps I should give more thought to the notion that Obama is like Hitler. To be fair, it has been suggested that the Republicans' "culture of corruption" is responsible for this Democratic Serbian-American's seat-selling atrocities. You know things are really bad when Democrats are starting to sound like James Dobson. (I don't know much about this Blagojevich guy, but according to the traditional culture war analysis, the homos are probably to blame. Oh, yes....) All humor aside, I'm lucky to have a well-informed co-blogger from Illinois right now, as I simply cannot keep up with today's world. MORE: Speaking of keeping up with today's world, I was on PJTV's roundtable discussion about Blagojewich, Michael Steele, and the "call in gay for a day" nonsense. Don't miss it! posted by Eric on 12.10.08 at 11:35 AM
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Can probably get a better deal on Biden's seat--low turnover, that one. Heather · December 10, 2008 11:43 AM Honored to be of service. Simon M. Simon · December 10, 2008 02:15 PM Any sir-name that originated east of the Rhine, is viewed as unpronounceable by most western Europeans and Americans. It isn't funny. It is just stupid. (and it isn't the names that are stupid.) People insist on inserting vowels where there are none. (Even the Germans had trouble with that one. "May the Schwartz be with you") The pathological inability to admit that some names end in -nik, and insist on spelling them -nick. (A lot of people had their names changed on this one at Ellis Island, including some of my grandfather's cousins.) So no, not everyone in this country has a name like Smith, or Baker. Not now, not ever. (Do you know who Kazimierz Pułaski was? I didn't think so. Americans insist on misspelling his first name as well, you might need to look under Casimir.) We didn't get to choose our names, and few of us change them. Most of us don't have to put up with flack over them after we get out of the third grade. Zendo Deb · December 11, 2008 01:15 AM insomnia.detacher.implementations epidemic Germania:hospitalizing Bruegel mouthful Anonymous · December 11, 2008 10:58 PM Post a comment
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