Saturday At The Movies

I Read two interesting things in the NYTimes this weekend waiting for Vicky Christina Barcelona to start:

• The term "maverick" comes from Samuel Augustus Maverick, a Texas rancher in the 1800s who refused to brand his cattle. A "maverick" then became a term for anyone who did not bear another’s brand. Terrellita Maverick, now 82-years-old, is "enraged" that McCain calls himself a maverick. She said, "It’s just incredible — the nerve! — to suggest that he’s not part of that Republican herd. Every time we hear it, all my children and I and all my family shrink a little and say, ‘Oh, my God, he said it again.’ ”

• Maureen Dowd wrote, "Navy Seals are elite, and they get lots of training so they can swim underwater and invade a foreign country, but if you’re governing the country that dispatches the Seals, it’s not O.K. to be elite?"

So here I am, sitting in an independent movie theater, on the Upper West Side, at a Woody Allen movie (which was great), reading the NYTimes, on my iphone, wearing an Obama t-shirt, thinking, when did I become a liberal stereotype?