In the interest of avoiding contracting athlete's foot at the gym, Stewart and I bought some flip-flops this morning. Flip-flops, in addition to having a great name, are a big topic these days, as one of the more persistent accusations Bush is making against Kerry is that he flip-flops. CBS News has taken the time to list the top ten ways that Bush has Flip-flopped, but I'd like to take the position that flip-flopping isn't all that bad of a thing. There are times when you think you're right about something, and you spread it all over creation that you're right about it, and you tell your friends and write editorials to your paper -- and then you discover you're wrong about it. At which point, if you have any guts or integrity at all, you fess up and say, well, actually what I thought before turns out not to have been right. Among the many things I've flip-flopped about: avocados, pointy-toed shoes, Kerry. Among the many things I've never flip-flopped about: Bush. (link via Tikkabik, photo by quox)

P.S. I love how you can find just about any image to illustrate just about any blog post by searching tags on Flickr.

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