March 19, 2007

Pete was in Ann Arbor, MI over the weekend visiting our good friend Bud and taking in the local liberal flavor. Apparently he saw more than one "Impeach Bush" yard sign. This week, I'm in another bastion of liberal thought, Madison, WI. I'm looking forward to reading the opinion page of the local paper. At this rate, we need to organize a trip to Berkeley, CA or Cambridge, MA. Perhaps I'll pick up a "NPR mind in a Fox News world" bumper sticker for a couple of my training buddies.

On a non-political note, the mood here is very somber after the UW Badgers early exit from the NCAA tournament at the hands of Lon Kruger's UNLV Running Rebels. I'll never forget driving to Miami early one Sunday in 1994 so I could watch the Kruger-coached Gators defeat Boston College in an Elite Eight match-up for the right to go to the Final Four.

UPDATE: Bumper sticker sightings:
Doing my part to piss off the Religious Right
The last time we mixed religion and politics, people were burned at the stake.

These two stickers were among the 10 or so plastered to the back of a car I was behind on the way to a client. What is the friendly new PC name for atheists? Non-theist? Actually, they also had pentagram stickers on the car as well, so I guess that makes them some sort of Wiccan. They means they aren't necessarily atheists, oops, non-theists, but I can surely guarantee they aren't good 'ol fundamentalist Christians.