Maggie's Farm

As one who has long been living in a red portion of a blue state, I have to disagree with this quote.

In my experience the worst thing in the world is being sure you are facing your last moments and this is the way you will die. It is, admittedly, a short lived awfulness but a profound awfulness.

Another horrible thing is to be stuck hip deep in mud that pulls one's tightly laced boots off and threatens to do the same with one's britches while one extracts oneself. And then having to dig into that mud to recover one's boots.

I suppose there is a strong similarity to that awful feeling and living in the red part of a blue state. Awful indeed. But not the worst.

I was carrying a weapon. An M1911A1 to be more precise. Alas, the US Army did not provide ammunition, I had none of my own, and shooting the mud would likely have been ineffective.

Now, the women attacked by the dog... that's another matter. A weapon my have been effective.