January 21, 2010

Just like Liz Parker said

My grandmother watched CSPAN like it was a marathon of General Hospital. While she thumbed through the morning’s newspaper and Senate committees hocked in the background, we kids jumped in and out of the swimming pool and then raced each other down to the beach. On the off-chance that she’d manage to grab one of us for a cuddle, Grandma would point at her 6″ television screen and say, “See that man? Look, see that wide smile? That man is a Democrat.

“Now wait. See that scowler? Can y’see how unhappy that man is? That’ll happen to you if you become a Republican.”

I never doubted her, not even for a minute. And then I came across this research, coincidentally from my grandmother’s nephew.

posted by in discovered, family, games, memory, politics, psychology | * | 3 comments 

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  1. Kelsey Parker on January 21st, 2010 at 1:26 pm

    Apologies to last year’s clusterflockstock attendees who I could swear already heard this story.

  2. Deron Bauman on January 21st, 2010 at 1:29 pm

    great fucking story. I love the last sentence of it.

  3. Kelsey Parker on January 21st, 2010 at 2:30 pm

    Thank you, Deron. I miss her every day.

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