I hadn't talked with my favorite uncle in a few months, so I decided to give him a call today. "Ned, what's going on? How the hell have you been?" Uncle Ned isn't in the best of shape nowadays, but he still seems to manage. "Rob, where the hell have you been? Why haven't you called?" I'll admit it, I've been neglectful the last few months in calling friends and family, but it's not that I don't care. It's just that I have had other things on my mind. "Sorry Ned about not calling. So what's been going on?" We play catch up for a few minutes and then I ask if he has been reading my blog.
"Who the hell is this Mad Max character that you've been blogging about recently? What a fucking idiot. Let me guess, it's got to be one of your buddies from Madison." Mad Max has been a mainstay in my blog recently and I have a gentleman's agreement with him that I won't divulge his true identity and told Ned such. Ned is a bleeding heart Liberal - Mad Max is an anarchist - So it puts them on opposite sides of the spectrum. "Don't tell me Mad Max is one of these guys who thinks the government is bugging his phone. Hey, if he doesn't like this country. Why doesn't he leave? 'America, love it or leave it!' That's what we used to say when I was young."
Mad Max is a friend of mine. So I felt it necessary to defend him somewhat against my uncle Ned's rant. "Look, Mad Max loves this country as much or more than anyone I know. He, along with many others, doesn't like the direction it's headed. He's entitled to his opinions, just as you're entitled to yours." It doesn't take much for uncle Ned to get his dander up. Lots of people mistake his passion for belligerence, but not me, I am used to it by now. "Look, tell this moron to move to the Soviet Union or Syria. That would give him a real good idea of what government control is like - Mad Max - Jesus, can't you come up with a more original nickname for whoever this tool is?"
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