Tribalism Run Amok

GOP Debate Audience Boos Contraception.  Oh give me a break!  Nearly everyone in that audience uses contraception or has a spouse who does, and none of them are planning to give it up.  So what are they really booing?

They’re booing the other tribe: liberals, Democrats, progressives, those hippies down in Tucson.  A rough translation of that booing would come out something like this: “If they’re for it we’re against it, even though we’re really not.  We’ll let a zealot like Santorum take our birth control pills away, just to spite them.”

Well, that and racism, the thought that the restrictions on personal choice and freedoms they’re rooting for will be applied to blacks and hispanics, but not to them.

The thing is, nearly all of the people in that debate audience are going to vote next November, and they’re going to vote along tribal lines.  We can’t let their tribe win.  It’s that simple.

That’s all the political news I can stand right now.

Personal news?  Sure, let’s go there instead.

Yesterday the air museum recertified me as a walking tour docent.  As I conducted my regular tour for 20 or so visitors, the head docent tagged along and took notes.  He caught me in two mistakes: I said Orville Wright’s first flight lasted 8 seconds when it was really 12, and I said the Lockheed Skunkworks built a couple of dozen Quiet Star spy planes when the real number was more like 13.  I’m just glad I didn’t make more mistakes than that!

I cross-posted one of my earlier flying stories to Daily Kos.  Yes, there are some aviation-minded folks mixed in with the commies over there.  They seem to have enjoyed the story, so I’ll probably cross-post others.  This one was about my experience in the centrifuge, and it prompted a couple of dKos readers to speculate about the anti-gravity drive we’re no doubt testing at Area 51 … wouldn’t that be nice to have in a fighter, eh?

This morning I took Donna’s desktop PC to a local computer shop to have additional RAM installed.  I hate spending money on it because it’s going to die soon.  Ditto mine.  What do you suppose your total annual connectivity expense is?  Computers, software, ISPs, DSL cable, telephony, etc.  Do you want to know?  I’m not sure I do.  I know I don’t want to be without it, though.

Donna’s away in California and Polly’s working every day, so I have the house to myself.  It’s lonely, is what it is.  I’m not cut out for the life of a hermit.

Is that it?  Yeah, that’s pretty much it.  Not much going on around here right now.

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