Strange bedfellows

Apparently there is a secession movement afoot in this country, being pushed both by Southerners who refuse to accept the notion that the Confederacy lost the Civil War and by northeastern liberals who want their ultra-liberal states (I'm looking at you, Vermont) to be able to opt out of a government that is prosecuting wars they don't like. They are hosting a secessionist conference in Chattanooga that starts today. It is times like these that I wish I did not have a job so that I could go watch these dingbats try to rationalize something so collossally stupid to themselves.

I bet the attendees would look frightfully similar to those who go to Ren Faires and Trekkie conventions. I wonder if they, too, will have secessionist orgies?