How happy do these people look? Um, kinda not very. Today is the 150th anniversary of the first skirmish of the Civil War, the battle of Bull Run (also known as first Manassas). These poor slobs are attending this morning's commemorative event. As we cats write this, it's 99 degrees in Manassas, with a heat index of — wait for it — 109.
That's a statue of Stonewall Jackson in the background, and we bet you could grill a tasty mouse on it this afternoon.
As for us cats, we are taking it easy indoors. But we're wondering if any of the folks attending today's ceremonies are climate-change deniers. See, we have this theory that many Civil War buffs around these parts — and especially those insane "re-enactors" — are teabaggers. First because we've seen them tooling around with Confederate and Gadsden flags on their pickup trucks. But also because they seem unhealthily seduced by the idea of battle, having never served in an actual war themselves. (And, of course, by all that "Lost Cause" crapola.)
We're happy to be proven wrong. But in the meantime we're also content to bask in our owners' air conditioning. As for the nuts who are commemorating just a few miles north of us, we hope that Prince William County has lots of ambulances standing by. They're going to need them.
UPDATE: The National Park Service has canceled Friday afternoon's sesquicentennial activities at the Manassas battlefield due to the excessive heat. We're sure that the Republicans will say that this weather is just the result of farting cows and breathing trees.
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