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This sequence began yesterday when I sent out the below URL to a video called "Brokeback to the Future." It’s very well done, funny and the like. I am also considering it the end of Brokeback Mountain jokes. We’ve heard them all, there are no new jokes, just like there are no new ideas left in the world.

URL:
http://www.youtube.com/?v=zfODSPIYwpQ

My good friend AMR sent back this response, which reminded me of something long forgotten …

AMR wrote:
>For some reason, one of my kitty’s freaks out whenever she hears the
brokeback theme (or any >country music for that matter.) We noticed it
while watching the Golden Globes. Every time the >theme from Brokeback
played she would leap off the couch and stand in the middle of the
carpet >on her back legs with front paws up – Mircat style. Very odd.
Hilarious too.

That passage reminded me of an ex-girlfriend’s dog. Great dog; big black lovable wonderful dog. However, as goes with all domesticated - we are only able to surpress their wild instincts, not eliminate them. This doggie was very friends to women AND men - sometimes dogs with female owners do badly around men.

UNLESS you were a minority. Male or female. So in the discriminations cortex of this doggie’s brain was a programmed hatred of people of color. The tint on their skin could be the same as an overbaked winter tanner - it didn’t matter. Delivery persons, cleaning staff, anyone who was not  born in the U.S. was at risk.

Some dogs are xenophobes. Some cats are hung up on sexual orientation.

What are you hung up on?

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