Dan at Slapinions and My Daughters

First, now that I am back, I want to give my hearty congratulations to Dan, at slapinions, for being named an AOL guest editor last week (see comments).  I am sure he deserved it, and I don't say this just because he named this blog one of his "guest editor's picks".

Now his note, in naming me a "guest editor's pick", was not a total endorsement.  "A bit too far right, even for me for me", and "a proud part of the vast right wing conspiracy" were part of the brief note.  Still, the pick brought exposure to this blog, as Dan was well aware it would, and was a very kind thing.  That is especially true since I have not done antyhing for him.  And he did call this blog "intriguing".

How can I be part of the "vast right wing conspiracy" when I FAVOR Hillary Clinton for President.  This is not a joke.  I have promised to vote for Hillary Clinton for President, if hse is nominated (unlikely as that now seems).  And I will, as I voted for her in the Texas primary.

Now it is true that this is my own verstion of Rush Limbaugh's "operation chaos", which I came up with BEFORE Limbaugh.  I have high hopes that Hillary Clinton will be as good for conservatives as Bill Clinton, and will set back both feminists and leftist Democrats a hundred years or so.  That is why I am willing to carry "operation chaos" beyond Rush Limbaugh's campaign to sabotage Democrats to elect McCain.  I carry the sabotage idea further:  to the point of actually electing Hillary Clinton. 

Yes, the implication is that I think the country can survive Hillary Clinton as President, and even prosper.  And I do, although I could be wrong (with a Democratic Congress, instead of the partially Republican Congress that kept Bill Clinton in line).  I do NOT feel that the country can afford to take the chance with Barack Obama (although I still can't vote for McCain, and will probably vote for the libertairian candidate, although I fully expect McCain to easily win Texas anyway).

Okay.  Maybe Dan is right.  Maybe this is my own, personal, indiosyncratic "right wing conspiracy":  a conspiracy NOT to destroy the Clintons specifically, but to destroy leftism and feminism for a generation or more.  I still regret not voting for Bill Clinton (both times).  He was the best thing that has happened to conservatives since Reagan.  I am deathly afraid that John McCain may turn out t be the worst thing--even worse than the two Presidents Bush.

This brings me to my two daughters.  One, Kenda, is now a lawyer at a big time law firm in Boston (and has been so for two years now).   The other, younger,  is Kyla (see comments to yesterday's entry).  She is going to graduate from UVA law school in May, and already has a job with a big time New York City law firm.  She is married to a former mariine firefighter (a marien when she married him in Hawaii, while going to the University of Hawaii).  Of course, I am proud of them and their accomplishments.

However, they are also the SHAME of my life.  I lhave lived in the Southwest since 1960, with brief breaks in the army and for law school in Austin, Texas.  You will note that the daughters have ended up in Boston and New York.  Kenda, in fact, is already acting like she is a Bostonian born and bred.   That is the first shame.

The greater shame is that they are BOTH feminists (the worst thing I can call anyone).  Kenda voted for Hillary in Massachusetts,  and NOT because she was trying to sabotage the Democratic Party.  Kyla has been a radical feminist since HIGH SCHOOL.  WHERE did I go wrong?

What does this have to do with Dan?  Well, he emailed Kyla to ask if she were REALLY my daughter, after seeing the previous comment from Kyla (suggesting that the thought of more people reading this blog, as a result of Dan's actions, caused her to lose sleep at night).  I can actually understand Dan's confusion.  It is beyond me how I ended up with TWo feminist daughters.  It is the shame of my life. 

Dan, by the way, asked whether Kyla was joking in her "losing sleep" comment.   She assured him she was.  Now this is, of course, only partly true.  Yes, I fully understood she was joking, just as I am (sort of ) joking when I talk about the shame of raising feminists.  But only partly.  I really don't like feminism, and my daughters really do like it (not that they go with the anti-male version).  I am sure that, in many ways, they are ashamed of ME.  So, politically, it is awkward.  We do, I think, respect each other's intellectual ability. 

Hey, Kyla--the daughter who disagrees with me most violently--sent me a FRUIT BASKET because of the bad week I had last week (explaining my vacation from the usual massive number of verbose entries in this blog, which will probably now resume). 

This may not fully explain to you, or Dan, my relationship with my daughters.  However, I assure you that the personal relationship is fine.

I did want to express my appreciation for Dan's "guest editor pick" of this blog, AND my congratulations for his much more significant selection as an AOL "guest editor".  I am even flattered that he worried enough about Kyla's comment to check whether she really is my daughter.  Sometimes, that worries ME.

P.S.  No, I can't even blame their Mexican-American mother (my ex-wife), for my daughters turning out to be FEMINISTS.  Although my ex-wife would hardly endorse all of my views, she (now a successful speech therapist in the San Jose area) is more in tune with my views than my daughters--hardly a flaming feminist.   It just shows how seductive the leftist, feminist message can be.