Red States

Today I went west for the holiday, to Bloomington, IN and the home of my future in-laws. We left our blue state paradise and traveled across America, red state America, West Virginia, Ohio, and then Indiana.

We discovered a few things on our trip. First, real Americans apparently eschew Starbucks. We'll take our coffee the old fashioned way thank you, don't need none of your haf-caf-caramel-latte crap. Coffee, black, from the truckstop. And you'll like it.

Next, when all the counting is complete in Ohio, and they do the recounting and it is complete, if the Republicans do win it seems like they did do what it took to get the job done. Due to a tragic CD player malfunction we did a lot of radio listening on this trip. Running the AM dial with the seek feature on the radio from the top to the bottom yielded no less than seven occurrences of the Rush Limbaugh show. That's some brainwashing on a truly epic scale. Do I have to tell you how many instances of the Al Franken show we heard? Even NPR was pretty rare. Although toward the end we did catch a little bit of a static accented broadcast of "The World" talking about hydrodynamic energy.

Other than that its a fairly uneventful trip for Pittsburgh to Bloomington, even blander today. Long, grey, and rainy with lots of people driving like they were in a hurry.

Everyone out there, have a great holiday. Don't eat too much.