One last political post and then it’s on to my usual diatribes about browser problems, CSS, JavaScript, and the contents of my pockets (right now: chapstick, receipt, four coupons for local eateries, and a small quantity of lint). I just want to get something off my chest.

Disclosure: The candidate I voted for won. This is the first time that’s happened for me. The following doesn’t involve the candidates, however. Also, this is a bit of a ramble.

America (and to a lesser extent, the rest of the world), I’m really sick and tired of extremist/fundamentalist diatribes fueling all our conversations. At some point, it became impossible to simply disagree with someone civilly on any topic. Instead, whether it was about tonight’s pot roast or the national election, if someone disagreed with you they were a damned, dirty, ape. Possibly a communist dirty ape or a nazi dirty ape, depending on what angle you were spinning. It’s become all too common for everyone from newscasters to tweeters (tweet people, what the heck do we call those) to literally go unhinged and accuse anyone they disagree with of being un-American, nonhuman, or worse.

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