An example of a liberal who still likes her eeeeeevil conservative friend. New and improved, now with poultry!

My best imaginary friend Mia sent me a silly Hallmark e-card for my birthday that is making me giggle uncontrollably. I was so tickled at it that I made a couple of screencaps of the top-billed characters, Chick and Duck:

And here they are rocking out:

  

Like I've said before, I'm easily amused. And since I was posting those poultriful screencaps, I decided to go ahead and re-post something that I wrote last month that I ended up deleting later. So here you go, again.

I didn't read last week's Time yet (my nerdy self had to have Popular Science and Scientific American this month, because I was a sucker for the Best of 2004 and Are Viruses Alive? covers.) So my magazine queue overfloweth. Anyway, there are letters in this week's Time that refer to "The Uniter vs. the Divider" piece by Joe Klein in the November 15th issue. Reading them made me appreciate the arrangement that I have with my friend Mia. Mia and I are extremely similar, down to our weird idiosyncrasies and the particular type of crazy that emerges when something wigs us out, but we're polar opposites on sunscreen usage (I stupidly avoid it) roller coasters (I love them) and politics.

Despite the political differences, though, we can have discussions about politics that don't dissolve into a contest of who can screech her side's mantra the loudest:

"La la la la la Bush is a manipulative and evil devil monkey la la la la la la!"

"La la la la la Bush can do no wrong and Dick Cheney is so not responsible for the Crystal Lake murders* la la la la!"

I just think that's really great. Maybe we should get our own "Hannity & Colmes"-type show. I can talk through my nose and say that everything is unbelievable, and she can have an out-of-control eyebrow that practically jumps off of her forehead. I think it would be fabulous.

*Dick Cheney really isn't responsible for the Crystal Lake murders la la la. It's a reference to an Onion article back in September, but I can't link it because I'm not a premium member and I'm too cheap to join. So there.