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[krispos42]

151. I love how...

...you define me completely by my opinion on guns.

I was in the playground yesterday at my kid's elementary school, talking about how now that the Boy Scouts have crawled into the late-20th-century on gay issues I would let my kid join, and the other two mothers were in complete accord with me.

I was in Wal-Mart two months ago, looking for .22 ammo in the sporting goods section, and a guy who was open-carrying a pistol (the horror!) came down the aisle looking at stuff with his girlfriend. I made a passing comment about the scarcity of ammunition, we talked for a little bit, he gave me a pamphlet on open-carry in Connecticut, we talked more, and I wound up giving him a lecture on the evils of globalization and Reaganomics. He got a bit glassy-eyed, but nodded at the appropriate times.

I was in my 19th Century European history class last night, and the professor spend a few minutes on how the Republicans are cutting food stamps (in comparison to Napoleon's government ending price-controls in France 200 years ago). He was very upset at the immorality of this action. I raised my hand and made the point that ¾ of the recipients were elderly or disabled (thanks to EarlG's infographic) and, even if jobs were plentiful, COULD NOT work.

The discussion in the class wandered a bit, and while he was talking about democracy and the Teabagger-induced dysfunction in Washington, I raised my hand again and asked "with Citizen's United and corporate money and lobbyists flowing unchecked into Washington, how long can we call ourselves a democracy?"


But if it makes you feel better to simply think of me as a RW troll, you can go right ahead and do so. Your loss, not mine.


BTW, Ted Cruz finally shut his yap.