It’s weird being in the Western hemisphere.

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(Originally published at SarahPin.com. You can comment here or there.)

People actually update their blogs while I’m awake here. I can’t get used to it.

Today I was in a doctor’s waiting room while Papaw got his eyes looked at (sibling who isn’t here - he can officially drive again! He’s very pleased about that, he thinks I don’t slow down enough at turns), and got to hear an elderly couple enthusiastically cheering the woman who called Obama an Arab. They felt the term to be a nicely cutting insult for a non-white liberal-type. One thing that’s relaxing about not being fluent in a language is that it’s harder to identify the racism. One exists permanently in a hazy fog of “Did that biker guy say something offensive? I wish he’d enunciate clearer so I can look up if I don’t want to sit next to him.” I regrettably speak Kentuckian, and the waiting room was too crowded to move.

PSA: Nobody ever buy something Food City labels “kimchi.” I don’t think they know what that means.

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[elongated-tito.livejournal.com]

There seem to be a bizarre number who are not actually clear on what 'Arab' means.

Also, I read a thing in the Times the other day about an Obama campaigner who told an undecided voter that Obama 'thinks like a white man', or something to that effect. Jesus.

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You can't hope to win Ohio without the crucial racist vote!

Today I got to hear our optometrist's incisive opinions on the likelihood that Hispanics are will outnumber white people "in our own country" if we don't get on the ball and have more babies. He doesn't seem very enthusiastic about Obama, but is not voting McCain because he owns a good deal of stock.