Three notes — almost at random — on safe-zone violations:

No. 1:

At my beloved Uncle Bob’s funeral, the priest told a joke. You’re a photographer in a boat and President Bush is drowning. Do you save him or take a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph? The punchline had something to do with black-and-white or color film. Then he chuckled and said, “I hope there are no Republicans here.” My sister and I, sitting in the front row, glared at him and raised our hands.

Bless those ladies (and to heck with that priest).

No. 2:

Suffice it to say that this injection of politics into all things apolitical represents a kind of “mission creep” of the Left. Been on any federal-government websites lately? I’ve been to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service site only to find a government agency attacking the “failed policies of the last eight years.” I work in the environmental field and have never seen such overtly political content in my entire 20-year career. . . .
One thing is painfully obvious: We can fight back. We can turn off radios, turn off TVs, cancel subscriptions. A person might be surprised how much free time he would have. Time to kick back with a good book or clean the leaves from the gutter. Luckily, the birds in my backyard haven’t learned how to whistle that creepy Obama kid’s song.

I loved that. And No. 3:

Jay, you talk in your piece about being trapped on a city-tour bus, with the guide hammering Republicans. How about being trapped on a tour helicopter in Hawaii for two hours with a highly political pilot? I was on his side, but the other four passengers, including my wife, were most definitely not! And who’s got the nerve to get into a political argument with the pilot of a machine that, to me, defies the laws of physics? Talk about a captive audience and a serious violation of the safe zone!

Word. There are hundreds more where those three came from, but I think you’ve heard enough. Thanks to one and all.