From: "Zed A. Shaw" <zedshaw@...>
Date: 2005-10-20T16:31:20+09:00
Subject: [Way, Way OT] Re: How to hire a rubyist?

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:21:59 +0900
tomsonp@ee.pdx.edu (Phil Tomson) wrote:

> In article <20051019011636.39b3845e.zedshaw@zedshaw.com>,
> Zed A. Shaw <zedshaw@zedshaw.com> wrote:
> >I feel like I'm in Cuba watching Che
> >rape and kill people and saying, "Damn, some day that guy will be on
> >a t-shirt."
> 
> Well, or perhaps a more positive image and way before Che got to
> Cuba: watching Che swim across the Amazon river at night, with asthma
> so he can be with the lepers he wants to help.
> (see "The Motorcycle Diaries").
> 

* Swimming across the Amazon to help some lepers: 0 dollars.
* Writing a diary with your 'buddy' that makes you look good: 0
dollars.
* Getting some company to make a movie to pump you up as a hero to
clueless hipsters: 0 dollars.
* Murdering lots of people, killing their children, and raping their
women with moral impunity?  Priceless.

For all your psuedo-intellectual revisionist history needs there's
Communism. Trusted by more dictators than Fascism.


Zed A. Shaw
http://www.zedshaw.com/