Blog Love Omega Glee: Just A Minor Deity (21 January 2012)

Francine still fumes from being fired from the Poorpeople campaign so she goes out on the front porch for a smoke. Donald is shoveling snow off the front walk. When he sees her step out and light a cigarette, he stops and leans on his shovel, "Again? You just smoked one a few minutes ago. You hardly ever smoke this much. Are you still upset over the Poorpeople thing?"

"No," Francine says, blowing smoke into the air, "I just feel like smoking."

"Well, if you feel like shoveling, then this is all yours," Donald holds up the snow shovel.

"Do you need a hand?"

"No, I was only kidding," Donald says, as he goes back to shoveling.

"I just can't believe that I got fired because of my blog. It's like doesn't freedom of speech exist in this country anymore?"

Donald pauses and reaches into his Civics teacher mode, "Well, technically freedom of speech only applies to when the government attempts to censor someone, and even though Poorpeople is running for president, his campaign is not part of the government . . ."

"Donald!"

"Hey, I know what you feel like. When the students slashed the tires of my car at school, it hurt. I was a good teacher. I did not deserve that. But, in your case, you did not like Poorpeople anyway, so I do not quite understand why you are upset."

"Oh, I know. I hate Poorpeople. I was pretty much sabotaging things there anyway. It's just that I was looking forward to getting the insider look at presidential politics. It's probably for the best though. I just hope that jerk who fired me doesn't cause me any more problems somehow."

"He already fired you so what more could he do? This reminds me of an issue of Thor I just read. Thor and Hercules are in a bar on Mount Olympus . . ."

"They have bars on Mount Olympus?"

"Please do not interrupt; it is not polite."

"Sorry."

"So Thor accidentally bumps into and spills his mead on Mercury. He offers to clean it up, but Mercury runs off. Thor's worried about Mercury holding a grudge but Hercules tells him not to worry about it because 'He's just a minor deity anyway.'"

"Uh, huh. So . . ."

"So this guy whom you are worried about is not even a minor deity so I would not worry about it."

"Thanks Donald. That's actually not bad advice."

"You can learn a lot from comic books."

"I'll say. Too bad the Human Torch isn't here to help us melt all this snow, huh?"

"Actually, there was this one issue of Fantastic Four where . . ."

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