Our Dad...

[H2O Man]

To those on The Democratic Underground:

We think that many of the people on this forum know our father, "H2O Man." This is the political site he likes the best. So we want to share some information with you about Dad.

For the past month, we’ve known that he has some serious health issues. But he is a stubborn sort - not possessing the insight to practice the same level of care for himself, that he does for others.

This weekend, it hit a crisis point. While preparing for family friends to come over in the evening to watch a championship boxing match, he began to take on a gray, sweat-soaked appearance. He refused to cooperate with Mom’s and my efforts to get him to the Emergency Room. Finally, my brother Darren picked him up and carried him to his jeep.

To make a long story medium length, it turned out that his abdominal wall had a rather long and wide rip, and his intestines had wrapped about his stomach. From the ER, he was taken via ambulance to a fine hospital that specializes in such things. Mom and Darren said that Dad did his comedy routine right up until they put him under for the surgery. The operation was successful - and his predictions for the fight were right on the money.

When he returns to our home, his doctors have ordered him to do nothing for six weeks. For this reason, we would politely request your kind assistance. Mom would hope that people on The Democratic Underground will help keep "H2O Man" pre-occupied with entertaining himself on The Democratic Underground. Can you help?

In keeping with his unique ability to wax and wane poetically and politically, I must paraphrase Albert Murray, the Tuskagee scholar, and say that Dad and DU are the long heirs and continuators of the most indigenous mythic prefiguration of the most fundamental existential assumptions which underlie the human preposition we recognize as the Declaration of Independence, perhaps especially being highlighted by the Emancipation Proclamation (not to mention the Gettysburg Address, both of which Dad is convinced are fully needed today), all of which is further particularized in the Bill of Rights in that Constitution that our Father, who art in recovery from painful surgery, so often talks about.

We would appreciate your help with this. He really does listen to people on this site, even if he comes across as a stubborn, opinionated grumpy old man. We like that he finds this site an inspiration for the countless letters and phone calls he makes, to politicians and newspaper editors. If anyone here wants us to pass a message on to him, we’d be happy to do so.

"Keep fighting ‘the Good Fight!’"

Corey, on behalf of the Sons & Daughters of "H2O Man"