Ooh heck

I don't normally like linking to overly personal things, but let's make an exception.: "A couple of weeks ago, following the last presidential debate, I said some rather inflammatory things about George W. Bush in a public post in my LJ, done in a satirical style. We laughed, we ranted, we all said some things. I thought it was a fairly harmless (and rather obvious) attempt at humor in the face of annoyance, and while a couple of people were offended, as is typical behavior from me, I saw something shiny and forgot about it, thinking that the whole thing was over and done and nothing else would come of what I said.

I was wrong."

No, this isn't going to turn into a rant about the evils of voting for the wrong person. I just want to say that something similar happened to me. It's part of the reason my family settled happily here (so, we found a way to make lemonade out of what tasted like lemons).

Sooner or later I'll piss off two or three people and tell the whole story including the lame-brained episode of the hand-written envelope containing the typed anonymous letter to the INS; but until then, I give you this.