Oops, never mind!
February 11, 2008 – 3:27 pmThey caved. They finally caved.
Or did they?
Today, mayor Chuck Reed and Councilmember Madison Nguyen caved in to the protestors and released a memo saying that they want this Little Saigon mess on the ballot in November. So now everyone in San Jose will get to vote on whether a stretch of Story Road should be renamed Little Saigon instead of Saigon Business District. And they now want to reallocate the funds that were to be used for the Saigon Business District signage and use that money to help pay for this ballot measure.
Now, is this really caving in to the pressure, or is it just a sly political move in order to make sure the two of them are finally seen as “democratic?” In either case, this is a dangerous move that could seriously backfire right in their face. A good portion of San Joseans, right or wrong, are just plain sick of this whole issue. What next? 30 years from now, when thousands of Iraqis takeover Willow Glen and insist on renaming it Little Fallujah, should the city pay for an election to vote on it?
Anyway, the fact that it’s come this far proves the whole thing is political theater of the absurd in its purest form. It more than screams for absurdist quotes, so here we go. These quotes perfectly describe the entire situation. Feel free to leave your own quotes.
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
–Oscar Wilde
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
–Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.
–Eleanor Roosevelt
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
–Lord Byron