Another Tempest in a Teapot

One of the reasons that I began to blog is that I could say what I wanted to say. Signatures are, and will be, a part of my emails. I have 124 of them in my mail application, and they are assigned AT RANDOM to each email that I generate. I get nearly all my quotes from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution column called "The Vent". It is published six time a week, and I rarely miss one. I am told that it is one of the most popular features of the paper, which, by the way, is a liberal rag. The anonymous venting of opinions has local, as well as, political topics. The political topics run the gamut from far right to far left. A lot of them are amusing to me. If anyone thinks that I am going to go through a message that I wrote and edit it to hopefully not offend some disenchanted liberal, they are mistaken.

I agree that a travel chat is not a political forum. The two women (degraded now from ladies to women) had no business replying to the chat with comments as they did. My email address is between my name and my quote in every signature, so anyone with sense enough to pound sand should be able to send me a private message. My mistake ( I do make some dillys ) was in responding to them and including the chat address. It has happened before when I am pissed about some ding dong response. So it is on bended knee that I acknowledge my humanity.

Do I apologize for disparaging Teddy? In no way! It is sad that the analogy is true, but it is of his own doing. While I lived in Boston for two years, I never heard a kind comment about Teddy, and I wasn't living in some Nazi enclave. I lived is an apartment complex with all kinds of people. One local Massachusetts citizen did tell me once that the whole Kennedy clan was rotten except for young Joe, and he died in the war. After Jack, the gene pool took a definite turn to the south. It looks like there may have been a mutation in the form of Patrick now. He has had the guts to not emulate dad, and he has admitted to his problems, taken steps to help himself, and risen in my sights.

It must be easy to be liberal when you cannot even count up to your net worth. Liberals come in two flavors. Those who have considerable means and want to throw other people's money at problems, and those who want to suckle the government breast. There are exceptions, but only one comes to mind. His name is Hal Taussig. He and I agree to disagree on a bunch of things, but he defines "liberal" in my mind.

To know the "why" of my slant, I can only say that I was raised by independent thinkers who were not a pair of radical right wingers. Regarding "rude", I can only say that you do not know rude. I am never rude, but I can be downright ugly. You cannot have it both ways, I am either nice or ugly. It is like a dip switch; it goes up or down. If you don't wish to see my signatures, block my name in your email application. You may miss an occasional pearl but think of all the peace that you will have. I realize that may require a modicum of computer knowledge which is lacking in some people. It is too bad that superficial computing is so easy. If one had to pass an exam to use a computer, it might lead to a more efficient and sensible situation. Think of all the bandwidth that would be saved!

Someone suggested that I change the subject line, so he would know when to delete. My subject line in the post was appropriate and not misleading. Anyone who knows me will tell you that if I wanted to bash Teddy, I would have made that a subject line. The subject has nothing to do with a quote in my signature. I do want to thank the lady who spoke of Venn diagrams. I thought that she must be smoking something funny until I Googlized the words. Lo and behold, I learned something new for the day.

I guess I might become really paranoid about some of the opinions of my post signatures, if it were not for the fact that the split between pro and con is about 50-50. Most of my "pros" send messages to me privately for their own protection, I expect. These folks are not rabid, and on your next trip, you may sit by one. Nevertheless, I am glad to know that not everyone is a limousine liberal.

Make no mistake, I abhor some of the things that the rights proselytize, and if there had been a choice in the last election, I might have voted otherwise. There was no choice except to stay home or go and waste my vote. One of the things that makes the Swiss political system attractive to me is the multi-party arrangement in the government. One can choose between varying degrees of a philosophy. The one person who says he is a liberal and does not like political correctness really intrigues me. He may honestly have the heart of the matter in his head. Below is a good definition of this from The Vent.

Political correctness prompts the belief that no one should be offended. If you cannot offend anyone, you cannot be controversial. If you cannot be controversial, you cannot have principles. If you cannot have principles, you are a perfect liberal.
AJC Vent

That some people out there feel disdain for me, consider me self-rightous, think of me as arrogant, and do not agree with me, I consider a compliment of the first water. The world would be damn dull if we all were in lock step.