Unseating Foxx

That's a generous understatement.

What's so hard to understand is how the voters in her district can stomach the neverending stream of embarrassments that come from have the crazy lady in Congress.

Thanks for speaking up.

It was embarrassing enough admitting I grew up in Winston-Salem when Dickie Burr held that seat, but I generally avoid claiming that point of origin at all costs now that Crazy Ginny's on the scene. Now that I think about it, I was living in the city limits when I was suffering through my wingnut phase. Maybe there's really something in the water up there.

It's a long story. I was young, dumb, and easily led astray.

I started out as a registered Libertarian out of high school. Then the state yanked their ballot access and I spent many years officially 'unaffiliated'. I was pretty much apolitical through college (bong hits all day will do that you know), but when my first child was born I decided I needed to be more responsible, so I got religion for a while, gave away a huge pile of great records :( and started listening to radio preaching, which led to Rush (and I don't mean a great band from Canada). Before it was all over I had a house full of guns, was listening to some real far right extremists on shortwave radio (this was before internet), it got pretty bad.

Then one day I had an argument with my best friend of almost thirty years (who was more hardcore right than I was) and realized that it was all a fraud and I'd been living a lie: I was a closeted liberal hippie pinko commie freak, and I couldn't live that way anymore. I suspect there are still man more like me caught in the jaws of the wingnut trap. I do what I can, but I can't save them all.

I'm sorry to say that before it was all over I ended up voting for Reagan once and even Jesse Helms once; not even Jesus could forgive me for that.

Moral of the story: Drugs are bad, especially for those under thirty!