Togetherness and Flapjacks

Local bloggers often appear to tilt Left, perhaps due to their happy hour affiliation with Drinking Liberally. I would like to attend, but I worry that I lack the proper amount of free-floating outrage over the Dubya presidency.

Perhaps I will start a group called Drinking Moderately. It will consist of myself, alone, at the rail of the local Applebee's, sipping slowly from a mug of domestic light beer. A small framed photograph of John McCain will be placed on the counter nearby, and the good Christian families at other tables will be eyeing me nervously.

Conciliatory middle ground is difficult to maintain.

And on the heels of the outing of everybody's favorite member of phylum Porifera, we have a new clash between the preachy PC crowd and schoolmarmish conservatives over yet another animated character. PBS's "Buster" has been tried and found guilty of consorting with syrup-harvesting Vermont lesbians and encouraging children to treat others with kindness and respect.