OK, I'm a little sleepy. But I just went to stltoday.com and saw a blurb saying it wasn't often our liberal Democrat and conservative Republican state reps., Clay and Akin, were in such agreement ... and then my eye slid to the article list at the right, which announced "Clay is gay; Aiken comes out of the closet."
The sad thing is, even though I know full well neither representative is gay, I felt a brief flash of interest and something like hope. There's less and less common ground these days ... I'll take it anywhere I can find it.
And now I hesitate even to post this, because half the country will find it offensive that I even made the mistake—tarnish two men's reputation over two vowels!—and the other half will be appalled at any suggestion of common ground.
The culture wars weary me.
—Jeannette Cooperman, Staff Writer
