One of the
usual neanderthals opined thusly on the Letters
to the Editor page today:
Blue Angels
Editor -- Mea culpa. Call it guilty pleasure, but with the first startling roar of military jets flying overhead Thursday morning, my heart raced and I broke out in an ear-to-ear grin. No, not just because the Blue Angels are once again in town to celebrate Fleet Week, but, rather, because I know every time those taxpayer-supported jet fighters scream overhead with exquisite precision the next few days, it's going to drive the anti-war, anti-military, anti-Bush crowd absolutely nuts. Heh.
RICK VAILL
Sausalito
Let's see. Anti-war? Check. Anti-military? Somewhat. Anti-Bush? Hell yes.
But the moment I heard the Blue Angels roaring overhead, I too broke out in a big grin. I can't help it. Planes are cool, and planes flying in formation, doing daring loop-de-loops over Alcatraz and the Bay Bridge, defying gravity... I eat that sh*t up.
Yes, it is a show of military might as well as gravity defiance... but on the other hand, every plane flying over the Bay is one less plane bombing some other country!
Anyway, Rick, how's this for a deal. You fantasize about how the Blue Angels are going to drive liberals nuts, and I'll fantasize about how every piece of bad news that's come out in the last month... Hurricane Katrina, Harriet Miers, Tom DeLay, etc. is going to drive Republicans nuts.
Oh, sorry, I forgot. You're already nuts!
(The picture is one I took two years ago, last time the Angels were in town. I didn't get any good pictures of them today, alas.)
