Anecdotal Evidence

I saved up for snow tires this year (damn near killed myself on bald tires in these goddam mountains last year) and went down to get them mounted and balanced this morning after coffee. The tire shop is an old tin shed out back of this guy's house a way down the road, and I hadn't been there since last year to get a flat fixed, and politics never came up then. Funny how politics is in everything now. Good, too. His neighbor across the road (who I don't know) has a huge 4x6 BushCheney04 poster mounted on fence posts in his little pasture. The tire guy sees my stickers on the truck and says he's voting for Kerry. He says, 'You seen dat sign across the street?' I said, yeah, sure. And then the tire guy - ?a toothless old vet? - goes off, and this is what it sounded like:

Dat sumbitch talks about how we gotta support Bush coz that means we're supportin the troops in eye-rack, but I tell you dis - ?he ain't got no sense, he never been in a war, he don't know. I know! I tell you, my boy, he wanted to join the Marines, I tole him no! you ain't joinin nothin while there's a crazy man runnin things, no. Course he ain't got much of a job, dat's why he wants to join. Ain't we learned nothin? I asks you. An dat mofo over there, what he really sayin is now dat we in the cesspool we might as well take a swim an thank the fool who threw us in. Crazy! Pure batshit! I cain't even talk to him no more. Like he got a zipper in his head nowadays. Damn fool.