Syndicate and Hague

In a post on Wonkette today, an interesting comment showed up. It’s something I hadn’t thought about, but you know…

The Republican convention is going to be here in the Cities and I already knew the progressives, liberals, anarchist groups–pretty much anyone left of Obama’s politics–will be out protesting in some way. After the strangely violent Critical Mass/MPD clash earlier this fall, progressive media/groups have expressed concern over what this will mean once some serious protesting starts around here.

What I hadn’t even thought about was Ron Paul. Check out the Wonkette link for the video–for some reason I can’t find anything on YouTube or whatever about it. Last night, RP was excluded from the Republican debate because his national poll numbers were too low. Crazy pants as the guy is, 10% in Iowa should justify participation in a debate–c’mon Fox News, don’t be so transparent about who you don’t want to win. Like no in-fighting I’ve seen in my lifetime amongst the Republicans, RP supporters were outside in full protest-mode, chanting and waving their signs.

So what happens in Minnesota after 50 states and repeated snubs of this candidate? The comment in Wonkette that caught my attention was that the RP followers would possibly cause huge protest-related problems.

So, uh, MPD? St. Paul PD? If you thought some extra Critical Mass cyclists were bad, try a pretty insane group that loves its guns. Progressives have spoiled you with our relative compliance to requests for peaceful protest–I’m not sure the same will be said for the RP folks.

Moving on.

Can we lay off the Kucinich leprechaun/elf/pixie jokes? I’d link to some, but it’s basically on every page that mentions the man’s name…so just Google him if you want an example. I swear. Everyone knows he’s small. But how many know what he stands for? Just asking.

In other, non-political news: I made a kickass lasagna, Megan made these awesome chocolate mint cupcakes that were a hit at her work holiday party yesterday, and I’m super jazzed about the PhD and all of the possibilities that are bubbling up just from talking with people about it. Life is oh so sweet.