Who was that masked man?

I had a neat surprise this morning. The secret identity of one of my best anonymous posters was revealed! Lately, often in the late night hours, somebody has been offering very tight, fact based repartees to some of my more bloated blog posts. The intelligence level is so high that I thought it had to be Millard. I called him up and he said that he had been laying low since his dreadful, racist, misogynist rant at the Obama White House and that it wasn't his stuff.

This morning one of my better clients came in to finish paying off a painting and he confessed at the last second to being the loyal opposition. I was actually afraid to show him my blog initially because I felt that we were such poles apart politically. And he also comes from a religious background. Way to go, Robert, alienate another good client. His first reaction to the blog was disinterest because I had written something on the Lakers and he wasn't into basketball. But evidently, he continued to check it out and I appreciate that since he said he never followed a blog before. Come to think of it, neither have I.

Someone once told me that I thrived on negative criticism and I think there's some truth to that. I get so used to the volume and bellicosity of my own bullshit that sometimes I even start to believe it! So people like Mr. Anonymous hopefully keep me from becoming totally full of crap. I know, I know, too late.

Prior to his unmasking today, we got into a good discussion about Obama and the general state of things. He thinks that the administration is basically dishonest when it comes to health care because the President shows the funding for it coming out of the surge drawdown in Iraq, which has already occurred in the accounting sense. Or something like that. He wonders if we are heading into a deep morass by entering the era of socialized medicine. This segued into the need to cut entitlement spending and the willingness of the majority to put the spending burden on the shoulders of those on the top of the economic period. He pays 70% of medical for his workers and 99% of vision and dental so this is not an intellectual exercise for him. This is real money. I countered with the usual corporate welfare argument.

I parried some of his shots, but found myself agreeing with much that he said. So thanks, anonymous one, thanks for listening to views that are so opposed to your own. I will try to do the same. So much of the information we peruse is selected because it reinforces our preconceived attitudes. That is why I read Townhall, National Review, Drudge, Weekly Standard as well as the liberal stuff. Plus they are so angry right now, it's kind of fun.

Jim told me yesterday that I have become totally biased against the Republicans. I hereby enter into my next phase of political self examination. I hope that anyone who wants me to post their writing will send me stuff to put on the blog. As long as it's spellchecked. Bad grammar is okay, actually makes me look smarter by contrast.

Got a call this morning from a producer who occasionally reads the blast about potentially helping with a new screenplay/story development idea. Mum's the word but it might be a very cool thing.