Politicalboot

I recently did a search on Google for 'glueboot' and it turns out that you can not only search for (non-existant) encyclopedia articles about glueboot, but you can buy glueboot on e-bay and now you can even 'search for competitive quotes' on glueboot products. Not to mention the large number of search engines that say 'search for glueboot here!' and the strange companies who advertise their literal glue on google when you do a search for me.

More interesting than that though, is that I have been added to a list of political blogs that has been compiled for people interested in politics and political theory. Some of you blog hoarders may be interested in it.

Also in the realm of politics; I was accosted a few nights ago by a man who seemed certain that it was right that I should vote in various Student Union referendums (I was later informed that this guy was the head of the SU). I asked him why I should vote and he said that if I did then he wouldn't pester me again (not a particularly convincing argument) to which I replied that if he pestered me again I would just tell him to 'fuck off' as I was about to do. He asked me why I wouldn't want to vote and I told him that I had no faith in democracy and that (in drunken tones) it was shite. He called me a communist and stormed off, I turned away and my friend told me that he threw a flyer at my head. It seems even the most lowliest of 'politicians' are prone to temper tantrums.

In hindsight there is something that I should have voted on but it wasn't what he wanted me to vote for. The SU wants to pass a bill banning all 'facists and racists' from the Union. I find this extremely problematic as how exactly do you define facist and racist? Do they include so called 'communists' who won't vote in the union elections as she finds democracy to be a sham? Is anyone who isn't left-wing liberal democratic a fascist? Am I racist for being vocal about the 'fucking English' or drunkly singing Irish Nationalist songs? I find the nature of the bill facist in itself so maybe when they pass it all the idiots who see SU politics as the centre of the world will have to ban themselves from the union (obviously this hasn't been rationally thought through).I hope they don't pass it though.... I don't want to be banned from drinking cheap and nasty beer and calling Heidegger a bastard in my usual haunts.

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