Cabarrus Cheap Seats

On invitation of the Kannapolis Citizen, I’ll be publishing this (well, last) week’s and future week’s Friday Five at SalisburyPostables.com - the Salisbury Post’s new blog site. I will post the video and header of the post here - with the entire post at the Salisbury Post site.

It’s interesting - y’all should go and check it out. Also, I’ll pretty much be out next week - except for next week’s Friday Five; because I’ve wanted to do a couple of things around here technically and I’m behind schedule. Here’s the head of this (well, last) week’s Friday Five (note, it’s a rerun from last fall).

In the couple of years that I’ve been doing this - I’ve noticed a pattern. This blog is written for people who are interested in local news and politics; and the people who I interact with usually marry people who consider that stuff trivia (they use other words, but “trivia” is the nicest I’ve heard)

Nearly everyone I know whose into this stuff from elected officials, to party operatives, to reporters have spouses that really don’t care about politics. That’s not bad at all really - an interest in politics generally has little to do with civic-mindedness but is a sign of some yet undefined personality disorder. It most cases the spouse is generally a convivial, genuinely wonderful person that the politico lucked into marrying. That is especially true in my case.

So, for today’s Friday Five I’m going to reflect on five things you should appreciate about your apolitical spouse.

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