One of my original reasons for starting this blog was to stop forcing my friends to endure my politically motivated posts and links on Facebook. Once I got started here though I decided to limit what appears here as much as I can to my own thoughts and creative efforts. There are so many others that already do the political links and commentary thing that to concentrate my efforts along those lines would be just adding another snowflake to the blizzard. So that leaves Facebook as my current outlet for those political urges. I have tried to cut back, but sometimes I just can't help myself. And when that happens I can usually count on a response from one of my good friends whose political leanings don't exactly line up with mine. In fact we've taken to bantering back and forth quite a bit lately about this that and the other. That we can do this and remain good friends is, I think, a bit of an unusual situation in today's climate of win-at-all-costs hyper-partisanship. My friend says our back and forth reminds him of these two characters:
It's an apt comparison. No matter how hard we fight our little battles, in the end we remain pals. One thing though. I think my friend sees me as the wolf, and himself as the sheepdog, the defender of the flock. Can't wait to tell him he's wrong. :-)
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