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Thursday, May 26, 2005
Stop her! She's got Mike's soul?
Say it isn't so, Michael J. Nelson, Minneapolis. Smartie at The Power Liberal is concerned that this is the Michael J. Nelson from Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame. I don't buy it. First, there are at least two Michael J. Nelsons in Minneapolis Second, the Michael J. Nelson is far too good a writer to cop to GOP talking points: "Question: In your paper's view is there any such thing as a left-wing radical? Any secular fundamentalists? Sen. Ted Kennedy, perhaps? Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg? Ward Churchill? Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice Margaret Marshall? Noam Chomsky? The Democrats who, for the first time in the history of the Senate, filibustered judicial nominees who enjoyed majority support?"At any rate, I'm assigning Ms. Hammer to the case. Long time ago Josh Will had a wee bit of a fancy for the quasi-single Ms. Hammer. Josh is the very funny, very talented actor/director about town. I met(*) Michael J. Nelson after one of Josh's shows; the two are long-term acquaintances, at the least. In fact, I believe Josh has a good anecdote about the confusion between Mike Nelson, writer & performer, and Mike Nelson, landlord.
Update
On the other hand, this purports to be an interview with Nelson:
MN: I think it will be very close, but I’ll say Bush. And if it isn’t clear by now, I think Bush should win. Especially after hearing Howard Dean’s infamous scream at the Iowa caucus. (Great, now almost half the people in the country hate me.)
To be clear, I don't care much about Nelson's political point of view. It's the cant recitation of Dobsonian "facts" that troubles me. For example, Noam Chomsky has been mentioned twice in the Strib in the last 10 years. Once as a former Naderite, once as a "leftist stalwart". Ward Churchill hasn't been mentioned in the Strib.
* Met, in this sense, means sat within 3 feet of, but was unable to say anything because of the buzzing fan boy drone dominating my internal dialogue.
6 Comments:
I'm assuming it's the same one-Lileks has mentioned in a couple of Bleats that the Mike Nelson is a conservative and the he's been to more than one of their Hewitt-led gatherings. God knows, enough exposure to Hewitt could cause anyone's brain to dissolve into little more than a GOP strategy memo.
After further investigation, it's probably the same MJN. I think hope got the better of me at the start.
Maybe his brain was stolen by TV's Frank?
By 
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10:57 AM
What's NARN?
What's NARN?
That's it...I'm taking MRW off the blogroll...
;-)
Please don't hold my ignorance against MRW. I still post there on occasion, but like the freedom of express all my ignorance as fully as I want on my own blog.
NARN could be the Northwest Animal Rights Network, but is, in this case, the Northern Alliance Radio Network. That site currently features Nelson's Mind Over Matters in the same lineup with the "Anti-Chomsky Reader".
I understand conservatism, but it sounds like MJN is a pretty hard-core right-wing guy.
