Hobson's Choice
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Heart Cockles
Heart-warming realization:
Kerry supporters look at all the "W" bumper stickers on cars and think: "Those people are ungracious winners. They are just rubbing it in. It's not enough for them to win. They feel the need to further the divide between red and blue America, rather than attempt to work together."
Bush supporters look at the Kerry stickers on cars and think: "Those people are sore losers. They are elitist liberals who do not accept the mandate of the people. They want to live in a dictatorship where their word is law."
But the reality, 90% of the time, is that our crazed, busy and lazy lives are just too full to find the time to get our outdated bumper stickers off our cars. It's more a statement about the frantic pace of America than about politics (or in my case, a statement about the extreme sticky quality of move-on.org's glue).
Well, except for maybe our "W" neighbors up the street who think that we're freaky hippies and are scared of us. It really begs two questions. (1) If Chris Green and Jenny Hobson seem like scary freaks to you, do you need to travel more widely in this great America and see what genuine hippies look like. And (2) Does Chris Green, now cleaned up for ten years, short of hair, trimmed of beard, well-shod, bereft of falling apart camo shorts, does that Chris Green still exude an aura of his early 20s? I would like to think so, that people can see emanating around him, his freaky self.
Actually, there's a third question: Are our bumper stickers and Chris's aura scary, or is it our indifference to keeping our nudist two year old in clothes?
8:23 a.m. - 2005-06-11
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