The New Road

Things are pretty crazy here at Reality Based Community Camp. This was a very exciting week. We got to play games against our sister camp, the Bush-Cheney camp. Woo, what a laugh riot that was.

The first game we played was spot the liar. First they showed president Bush at the debates denying that he ever said he wasn't concerned about bin Laden. Then they showed Cheney denying that he had ever associated Iraq and al Qadea. Then they showed Kerry saying that we had spent $200B on the war. Those crazy Bush campers said Kerry lied. It was a trick question though, since both Cheney and Bush lied.

Then we played basketball. We beat them 86-0. We think it's because they though they were playing volleyball. Oh, well.

Then it was story time. But this one had a special twist. We got two stories and we were supposed to tell which one was true and which was fake. Our counselor got up first. He talked about a weapons dump in Iraq that the administration didn't care about and left to looters. He even showed us a tape of some troops walking around the installation on their way to Baghdad and having a look at the explosives. It was very compelling.

Then the Bush-Cheney camp counselor got up and what stories he had to tell. He started by saying that our counselor was an un-American liar. Then he said that there were no weapons there. That they had troops in there but nobody saw anything. Then he said there were explosives, but the Russians took them. Then he started to blame the troops (we all boo'ed). Then he said that there were explosives there, but we took them, and we don't know where they are. Then he summed it all up by saying that the entire Reality Based Community Camp was filled with un-American un-patriotic treasonous liars. Suffice to say that his arguments weren't so compelling.

Everybody voted and as usual, reality won. As usual, the simplest explanation is almost always the right one.

Dad, they lost every single game. I guess it's better to be in touch with reality than living in a fantasy land. But they said that with God's help they would win the big game next Tuesday. We reminded them that "God looks after those who look after themselves".

We had a surprise guest at the camp right at the end of the night. Osama bin Laden himself showed up. Turns out everyone was too tired though, so we all went to sleep because we couldn't give a shit what he had to say. Somebody should have shot the guy a long time ago.

Well, that's it. My first postcard from Reality Based Community Camp. More to come later I'm sure.

P.S. Some of the campers from Bush-Cheney camp staid when the bus left. Turns out that the camp had returned all of their parents money at the beginning of the season, so they didn't have anything to buy food with. The counselors kept saying there was food but when they went to eat the trays were always empty.