A-Harr, Matey!

For ye scallywags who don’t already know, it’s International Talk Like A Pirate Day today. In honor of that, you can also support a good cause and avail yerself of some pirate booty at The Pirate Store, ye scurvy dogs.

In other news, I went to see Jon Stewart at Merriweather Post Pavillion on Saturday with Stef, Brunette, and AS. It was a great evening, and he was just as funny and topical as I’d hoped. One thing that he said really resonated with me – a lot of his routine was very political, as was not surprising. He said, as many have, that he believes that the vast majority of people in the world just want to live their lives, raise their kids, do their jobs, and just be. However, the people on the fringes are the ones who control the dialogue, because they are almost always the loudest. Being moderate doesn’t mean that you don’t have passionate beliefs about things, but it means that you’re capable of listening to people with an opposing viewpoint, capable of empathizing, and respecting them. And it’s very difficult to get a group of moderates motivated to go to a rally and scream “Be reasonable!” Moderates all along the spectrum, despite likely being the majority, don’t do those things because they’ve got stuff to do (the aforementioned lives, kids, and jobs). It was interesting and made me a little sad, to be honest.

But then I went to Six Flags on Sunday with Special K, and a few roller coasters and some funnel cake were enough to get my mind off the troubles of the world. Mostly because I think my brains had liquefied somewhere between the Joker’s Jinx and the Mind Eraser.

Arr…