while waiting for the sophos install engineer to show up, i had a great conversation with keane at work. i always like talking about things with keane, because he’s one of the more just-downright-reasonable people i know. he’s a conservative (and i think, but i’m not sure, a republican), and yet he and i manage to find a lot of ways to agree. and disagree civilly — in a friendly way, even.

so i was really pleased to have a chance to talk with him today about politics, because usually i barely see keane — he works third shift, and is generally gone by the time i show up — and we both mourned the offensive nastiness of this election season, gossipped about “Rathergate,” facepalmed about the bush twins’ giggleriffic intro, and mocked ahnode’s train wreck of a speech. it was very companionable. and yet we’re technically on opposite ends of the spectrum and aren’t supposed to be able to stand to actually discuss these things together without attempting to claw, bite, or scratch the other one to death.

oh well. i guess someone has to be the statistical anomaly.