Letters from Rachel Corrie

This is an opportunity to write about politics today

I had someone tell me, scream at me really, that didn't I know Rachel Corrie burned an American flag.

He stormed off when I started laughing.

I'm sorry, I really just can't get upset about someone, particularly a young person, drawing a picture of a flag on notebook paper and lighting it with a match.

Much more frightening to me is that he seemed to think running her over with a bulldozer was suitable punishment.

I know some people who used to set fire to their toy soldiers. Green means US, right? Is he going to stake the little b**tards out and get a bulldozer?

I probably need to get into Houston more and away from the rabid and angry and frightened in the suburbs.

I started hanging out on PasadenaTexas.com community forum because they cover local politics. Pasadena has a mayoral recall going on and someone who has been sitting in office after he lost the election.

A few people over there bothered to read this blog. Today two people out of the blue called me amoral, Socialist, and ultraliberal. Yep, they must have read this radical e-rag. They also asked if I should be commenting on Pasadena politics when I now live more than a mile away.

This week I had also been mildly criticized by people more liberal than me for voting for Barbara Ann Radnofsky and Chris Bell. She's a corporate lawyer, you know. And as for Chris he has an award he was given from Republicans before Tom DeLay wanted him and the other White Democratic Representatives out.

Those more liberal are much more polite. Unlike the "don't mean to sound rude" "capitalist" who told me to go back to my "amoral and Socialistic world." I am sure this is as much a surprise to La Porte as it is to me.

Hey Brother Jim, what are you doing this weekend? I need to get away from politics and frazzled people and have fine foreign food and maybe catch a liberal movie for a day.

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