Like Ehud Before Me

My entire nuclear family is composed of lefties. My mom had all her left-leaning tendencies beaten out of her at an early age, so I consider more a lefty-poser, but she likes to call herself a lefty. My parents used to joke, because joking about the state of Chinese politics can be so funny, that we were true leftists because, unlike other socialists, we were left-leaning on the inside. When my father repeated that line for the zillionth time, but also the first time in years, on Thanksgiving night, I realized that it had taken me twenty-some years to understand what he meant by leftest. I always thought he just meant really, really left-handed. All the sudden, at the dinner table, I perked up and exclaimed, "Yeah! I guess I am a little!" It made me sad that I had been dense for so long. But I don't think anyone at the table noticed, cared, or believed that I would have leftist tendencies.

Anyway, anyone else find it strange that the international emblem of socialist international is a right fist? I thought it was just the silly Democratic Left kids (formerly the Dem Soc) on campus that messed up, but no, it's the international emblem. That's a bit like if the drummer "from Def Leppard's only got one arm" actually had two arms, isn't it? Maybe not so much, but nevertheless, I wanted to give a Rick Allen shout out.