So on my dad's crazy Southern side of the family, there are only a few liberals -- the oldest members of the family including my Uncle Dee who's in his 80s and lives in Texas, my cousin Larry in Tennessee and cousin Wendell in Kentucky who are both I believe in their 70s, and me, who is pretty much the youngest -- and about a hundred angry, armed redneck wingnuts in between. We lone lefties send stuff amongst ourselves to kind of keep the faith. Used to be they'd send me things that circulated endlessly in emails, but lately I've been noticing that their stuff is remarkably up to date.
So last night I'm copied on an email from Larry to Uncle Dee who says "in case you missed this on THE BLOG." It's a post about Terry Rodgers, the wounded vet who refused to meet with Bush. And I'm like, what's THE BLOG? So I go to the link, and find these guys are sitting around reading Kos.
No shit. A bunch of red state senior citizens tired of being the only liberal in town have found their crew.
My cantankerous old Uncle Dee with his two steel hips hanging out on the night shift with Armando. I just can't stop laughing.