IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

Alabama Vote Opens Old Racial Wounds

I mean I know that there are a bunch of ignorant jerkfaces out there who haven't realized that:

a: The War is over. (Yes that war)
b: They lost.

I used to make jokes about it. Then I moved to Richmond. Seriously.

Even there I don't think we would run into this sort of stupidity.

I used to run into people that referred to the war as the "War of Northern Aggression" and looked for books of "Strictly Southern Literature" and other such.. eccentricities. I never cease to be amazed at people.

More in a bit.

Today, I see the post is essentially recycling headlines

Old Divisions Resurface in Ukraine

Racial divisions - old tensions - John Brown is on the loose again.... wait. I haven't had my coffee yet so scratch the John Brown thing.

Part of me is almost comforted by hearing cold war rhetoric again. A few days ago I heard Colin Powell rebuking the Russians for "interfering in the Ukrainian elections" and I was all a tingle with warm fuzzies - maybe it was the Tom Collins I was drinking.

I find it sort of funny that cold war rhetoric is familiar but this new war is still disturbing

But hey "We have always been at war with Eurasia"


right?