sticky politics

2006-04-25 - 13:14

I suppose part of the humor of my last entry I failed to impart was the perceived tact by the hospital.

This is funny I guess because I didn't mention that this "surgery" was all of five seconds and probably could have been done in someone's office with a Swiss army knife. That's why the word surgery is such a laughable extreme when used in my case.

On top of this though, they thought they were being clever and comforting by never resorting to the "C" word - so as not to get my dander up.... yet they tossed around the word "surgery" instead of "procedure" as if I was being wheeled into a MASH unit at code red?

Therefore, it just seems funny to me that if you're going to walk on egg shells, shouldn't you go all out?

Nobody likes a half-a32588ed job...especially when it comes to health care.

*this is the part where laughter or cricket sounds ensue*

Wow. I really butchered that story far enough. Moving on to...politics!! Yay!....

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I'd hate to over simplify our great two-party system, but I've found a great way to sum up the attitudes encompassing each party.

Basically, the ideology of each party can easily be delineated by.....their bumper stickers! Think about it:

Lefty bumper stickers (prevalent on old model Volvos and new Subaru's) usually support a freedom of some kind that is restricted, hated, or overlooked. These would be things like Pro-Choice, Save the Environment, Pro-alternative fuels, Love Animals, Watch-out for Bikers, End Hunger, Support your Library... and on and on with any number of "Pro" or positive things to say.

Righty bumper stickers don't really exist, strangely enough. If they do, it's your typical Lexus SUV with a standard-issue "W" sticker on it. Less classy examples may be a sticker of Calvin peeing on the word "Terrorist", or maybe peeing on the lead terrorist Osam...I mean Saddam. Your more compassionate Righty may instead have Calvin praying in front of a grave or cross, and that grave or cross is casting a shadow of .....wait for it....the Twin Towers! That one gets me every time. Mostly because I'm such an art lover.

Anyhoo, if not "W" their stickers revolve around hate generally. Anti-abortion, Anti-Evolution in schools, or then a non-political hate, like hating/peeing on Ford/Chevy, or hating/peeing on the number of the NASCAR driver they think drives in circles worse/better than the guy they love.

But then in the one place Right and Left switch roles is on War. All the Lefty stickers are anti-war, and the Righty ones are in support of it.

Not to lump our driving socio-economic factors or geo-political world views, or any other mega-super-phrases you can think of, down into a lowest common denominator... but isn't it sad that I kinda can?

Sometimes, the best way to choose sides is maybe to take on a 5-yr old's mindset (I think smart-type people call it Occam's Razor). Do you want to associate yourself with people who generally have a more positive attitude, or do you want to play on the team that gets angry at everything.

Just a primitive thought to consider.

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p.s. Man, definitely update via MS Outlook. Automatic spell check is the way to go!

out to pasture - to the barn raising