Yeah, I suspect you’re right about our political differences. But as I’ve said on my blog in the past, half my family, half my friends, half my co-workers and virtually all of Top Management’s friends are conservatives, not to mention virtually our entire neighborhood, as are a disproportionate number of the best people I’ve ever known. I got no problems with conservatives—heck, I love conservatives. It's just (most of) the folks y’all elect I can't stand. :) But I'm fully aware that that goes both ways. And, hey, Jefferson and Adams didn’t exactly always see eye-to-eye, now did they? And the country seems to have come out better for it. [Not that I'm comparing myself to either of those august persons, of course.]

Besides, as you say, us cellar-dwellers got to stick together. And what the heck, we’ll always have the Pixies.

Oh, and I'm totally with you on the Aquaman thing. He was one of my favorites as a kid. But I've never quite recovered from the skewering Dr. Katz gave him. Oy.