Channel Five just destroyed part of my childhood

Picture a crisp fall Friday evening, we have cleared the dining room table of everything after dinner and spread out the newspapers. We have the pumpkins, tools to create jack-o-lanturn masterpieces, and cookie sheets at the ready to spread out the seeds for roasting. We wheel the TV around the corner from the living room to turn on the venerable annual Peanuts Halloween Great Pumpkin special. We turn on the TV and what to we get?

A 6th congressional district candidate debate.

And people wonder why other people get turned off to politics.

My theory (totally unsubstantiated) is that Michelle Bachman insisted on the time spot because her church is probably one of those that preaches against halloween. She probably passed out phamplets to trick-or-treaters that came to her door.

Just my theory ....

And use some "buttah" to do it!!

Damn, I knew there was a reason I liked Barbara Streisand!

A few people in the crowd jeered and told Streisand to stick to singing.
She told them, "Come on, be polite.'' But one heckler wouldn't let up and
Streisand let him have it.
She told him to "Shut the (expletive) up!''

http://www.startribune.com/457/story/733218.html

Reminds me of when my very proper, upper-class looking Mother used to drive past Planned Parenthood in Highland Park and flip off the anti-choice demonstrators. And since she was a professional pianist in her previous life it was an impressive finger too!