~Upstream and Down~

I feel like Hester Prynne, except, instead of a scarlet A on my bosom, I have a big red X on Facebook… next to a picture of Obama. There was a "quiz," and though I seldom take quizzes I saw that other people had big green check marks showing that they had taken the quiz, so I clicked the link. Here's the question: Should President Obama be allowed to do a nationwide address to school children without parental consent? -Yes -No -I don't care Well, in a blink of an eye "without parental consent" trumped the president in my mind, and I clicked the box beside No . Then I thought, I really should find out what this is all about. I looked for the cancel button, but there wasn't one, so I returned to the Facebook page. Branded! There was a big, fat, red X next to a picture of Obama at the chalkboard on my page, like I was Xing him personally. Everybody else has pretty green check marks next to the picture on their pages. Some of us are just doomed to fail m...