Going To the Movies, and Escaping

AT MY LOCAL SENIOR CENTER, tucked into the green hills of the American south, Thursday afternoon is movie day. Right after lunch, before they all leave. I have to rush to get done with the dishes. The girls bring out the popcorn machine they found cobweb encrusted in the storage shed. Safe,y ensconced, El Director slapped in "The Amityville Horror". By this time I had done the dishes, and a little work on my computer. I was just logging off when all hell broke loose. Seventy five percent of the audience, church ladies, stormed out, summarily, while the director came racing in, hysterical, screaming apologies. within ten minutes a couple had gotten naked, and begun making love. Wrong version. When everybody had settled down, and the original version of the movie loaded, my interest "peaked", and I decided to join the party. First, I got my popcorn, which was delicious. Then, I settled in next to the four remaining ladies. I like to hang with intrepid, forgiving, open minded people. Within ten minutes, teh same couple (or was it?) began making out, but kept their clothes on. I decide to have a little fun, to get into the evident spirit of the day.Up I bolted, and proclaimed: "We need another movie! This one's no better than the other one!" It drew laughter. A couple more one liners, and I realized I had actually conveyed the false impression of being a prude. Oh well. Worse things can happen. Much worse. The local university, from which my father graduated law school in 1940 before serving int he war, he once described as "an oasis in the midst of a vast cultural wasteland". And he wasn't just whistling Dixie. There are memes out and about to the eff,ct that we can disagree and still respect each other, and treat each other with civility. I'm all down with the civility part, but respect I have trouble with, not to end a sentence with a preposition, a bad practice, up with which I will not put. I have low standards, but I have them, they're mine, and their all I've got. If you don't believe in don't accept their reality of evolution by natural selection, and climate change by human behavior, I don't respect you. Willful ignorance is has no excuse, unless you'r in denial of your time in Afghanistan, Iraq, or an E5 tornado. NO, this is not my insistence that my view point is the only correct one, and everyone should agree with me, so you right wingers needn't even try pulling that one on me. I am the intelligent, educated, tolerant , open minded one, and you, alas, are not. To worship a book, and to believe it even when it says that the world is flat and the stars are holes in the sky is simply not acceptable. You're the one who needs to change, grow, and improve, and abandon your willful ignorance, Also, the time for climate change deniers to straighten up and fly right has long since arrived. Basic science proves God made evolution and human made climate change as well as it does Newtonian physics, Euclidian geometry, and rocker science. If they had just given the original movie a few more minutes, we might have gotten to see some more good sex, and who knows, maybe a better flick.