re: #58 zombie

I wish I lived in that kind of environment. I go to all sorts of parties/barbecues/get-togethers, but jovial all-inclusiveness is never on the menu. Sometimes, to test the waters, I’ll make some snarky “counter-intuitive” joke about with an inherent ciriticism of Obama or any number of far-left canards — and the room will fall silent, accompanied by cold stares. There is just no tolerance for any non-far-left viewpoint, even as a joke. Everything is happy and hunky-dory, but there is a scary Brave New World-ish regimentation to the weltanschauung here in zombieland.

Exactly! I went for a walk this morning with a woman who is one of the other Republicans in Berkeley and it was just so good to be able to express our opinions without fear of social ostracism. (You all would really like her. She is more on the libertarian side than me.)