I just found out I'm a Republican.

Was talking to my mother yesterday morning about her upcoming visit to Portland. She's been wanting to see the Chinese garden for ages, so we were talking about doing that. And then she got really excited and said, "Ooh! And we could eat at Macaroni--. Oh." Her voice dropped a couple octaves in energy and pitch. "Well I was going to say we could eat at Macaroni Grill, but Republicans eat there." What?

She'd read an article about the study by National Media correlating consumer spending habits to political party affiliation. She said Republicans eat at Taco Bell and McDonald's too. Concerned about my potential subconscious right-leaning tendencies I did a search on the Internets and found this article by Thomas B. Edsall, a fairly regular Op-Ed contributor to the New York Times. And folks, the evidence against me is overwhelming: I am a Republican.