Oct
31
On Reading Republicans
October 31, 2009 by Allyn · Leave a Comment
Recently, for Sooper-Sekrit reasons, I have been following the post-Senate career of Rick Santorum, the former Senator from Pennsylvania (though he didn’t really live there).
This has meant, for instance, reading Santorum’s newspaper column for the Philly Inquirer.
I feel a thousand brain cells cry out in terror, and then suddenly silenced, every time I read a Santorum column.
I find that I don’t understand the hardline conservative Republicans. I wonder if they inhabit the same planet that I do. I wonder if they read and see and hear the same news that I do.
But they don’t. Santorum’s words may be in English, but they represent no reality I recognize.
C’est la vie.
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Allyn Gibson has written Star Trek short fiction, such as the groundbreaking "Make-Believe" in Star Trek: Constellations (2006) and the mind-blowing Doctor Who short story, "The Spindle of Necessity" in Short Trips: The Quality of Leadership (2008). He is also the writer for a monthly catalog where he gets to indulge himself in comics and pop culture. After hours, he writes fiction, non-fiction, and weird ramblings on his blog about whatever is on his mind. Now a Baltimorean, Allyn roots long-distance for two long-suffering sports teams: the Chicago Cubs and Hibernian FC; closer to home he roots for the "First in war, first in peace, last in the National League" Washington Nationals, because the Nats need all the help (and all the fans) they can get.
