Why Is It Right Wingers Feel They Can Scream Their Opinions To The World At Large???????????????????????????

                             This reminds me of my favorite scene in 1977's "Annie Hall, darlings."  You know, the one where Alvy and Annie are in line at the movie theater for a screening of Ingmar Bergman's "Face To Face"--this was back in the days when there were actually real movies to go to, as opposed to now--and they are right in front of this pontificating academic shouting his opinions not only to his girlfriend, but to everyone in line.  Which prompted one of my favorite lines when Alvy says, "Probably answered an ad in "The New York Review Of Books"--thirties academic looking for a girl interested in Mozart, James Joyce, and sodomy!"

                                 Something similar happened to David and I the other evening as we dined at our favorite Bay Ridge eatery, the Off Shore Diner.  With Deborah and Anna, the staff is great, but some of the customers--Oh, my God!

                                   The other night people in there were screaming their right-wing rhetoric--and you know what I mean, darlings--and I so wanted to go over and silence them.  But if I did I would either get punched or given a right-wing lecture on free speech.  Well, guess what, hons, it goes both ways.  You know if David or I had shouted our more liberal opinions we would have been quashed by these right-wingers, and I get it; they don't want to hear our rhetoric, nor we theirs.  But why do they seem able to cop the right to voice their viewpoints voluminously?  Sure, this may sound divisive, but that is the state of things today, sadly.  It is what it is.

                                     I have burst into song at the Off-Shore, and some have said I am pretty good. But if I hear any anti-gay slurs or such, I will stand up and say something!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                       Where is Marshall McLuhan when needed?????????????????