So at morning break today, we were all standing around watching the talking heads on HLN – not my first choice, but I didn’t get to the remote first, so whatev. Everyone in the room was watching, not just the 2 liberals. The boss came in and picked up the remote and started flipping around. He said to the guy standing beside me, “That’s no good to have on, nothing but bad news.” and after flipping randomly through for a few minutes, left it on the weather channel and walked out of the room.

I looked around at everyone else, most of whom were absorbed in the huge German Chocolate cake, and expressed my shock. The guy beside me said, “Just change it back.” So I did. And we continued to watch the talking heads talk about the same nothing I presume they continued to talk about for the next 2 hours.

And then I came home for lunch and Foxy and I held each other and cried. But I was not snotty or condescending or in any way offensive to any Republicans today, because I remember how horrible I felt 4 years ago.

So my explanations for my boss’s behavior: 1) He didn’t realize we were watching that channel on purpose, he thought we were trying to find out about school closings or snowfall or magical cloud unicorns. 2) He’s a raging racist asshole underneath that jovial redneck exterior.