Posting at The Huffington Post

I write a lot of posts at THE HUFFINGTON POST.  I use the handle Fearless Freep, after the no-show daredevil in the Bugs Bunny-Yosemite Sam cartoon HIGH DIVING HARE. (That's the one where Fearless Freep is going to do the fabulous high-diving act in Bugs' show, but he doesn't show up so Yosemite Sam insists that Bugs do it instead, but Bugs keeps tricking Sam into doing it...) For my avatar I have a photo of JS Woodsworth, first leader of the CCF, forerunner of the present-day NDP and pioneer of Canadian socialism.

Unfortunately, because of the website FREE REPUBLIC right-wing trolls have been nicknamed "Freepers," so people see my handle and assume I'm right-wing (especially when I criticize Obama!). And some people think my avatar is of Lenin or Freud.  So I added a mini-bio calling myself "A lefty with an avatar of JS Woodsworth." (They can google Woodsworth's name.)

Some issues get me posting a lot, like gay civil rights (I'm not gay myself, but civil rights is something I believe in), Omar Khadr (the child soldier given a show trial that disgraced both the US and Canadian governments), and Bradley Manning (the little traitor being prosecuted for exposing the big ones). But just lately I haven't had much to post about.  What on earth can I say about the Obama-Romney debates?  It just doesn't mean much to me.

My parents have taken to reading my posts, which has made me a bit more conscious of what I write.  It isn't that they ever disagree with me, but knowing that they're looking at it has somehow got me wondering if I'm making myself look silly.