Normally I stay away from politics in my blog – most of my readers, for whatever reason, are liberal infertile Democrats, so anything I say would be preaching to the choir, and I have too much respect to piss off those few conservative readers who come, against their better judgement, to read my hippy liberal blog. But last night I realized a key issue was being overlooked this election, an issue that threatens to divide Soper’s household, pitting husband against wife:
Did the moon landing actually happen?
SOPER: (reading moon facts in the new Almanac) Wow! The daytime temperature of the moon is 235 F, and the nighttime temperature can drop as low as -275 F!
D: Yep.
SOPER: 235 F! And you believe they actually put men on the moon?!
D: Because they did.
SOPER: (incredulously) In the 1960's?
D: Yes.
SOPER: With 1960's technology?
D: I have a signed picture!
SOPER: Oh, so it proves the moon landing, that you have a picture from one of the guys?
D: It was given to me by my preacher when I was a kid!
SOPER: Well if a preacher gave it to you....
D: You really don’t believe they landed on the moon?
SOPER: No! It was cold war propaganda! We really did not land on the moon.
SOPER: You really believe we did land on the moon?
D: Yes!
SOPER: You believe in the 1960's we shot three men into space and landed them on a planet where the air was boiling wearing nothing but duct tape and gold foil and they lived?
D: They had refrigerated suits!
SOPER: Uh-huh... Made by the same men who missed Mars a couple of years ago? Who missed a whole planet?
D: The moon landing is real!
SOPER: The moon landing is fake! Fake!
D: It's real! Real!
Let’s hope this doesn’t tear our family apart.....
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