Camo hats used to make me bristle. Now it’s camo hats and red hats. It’s like the old days when certain colors meant danger and you prepared yourself for someone stepping up to you with some garbage or another. It’s the same shit renewed every decade or two.

My fantasy is standing at the window of a mountaintop getaway in the desert, far from colors. It’s an authoritarian state where the left is in brutal charge. Camo hats are banned. Red hats are burned. It’s zero tolerance for the Other Side of the Aisle and the inevitable, horrible backlash. No progress at all but immediately satisfying.

Today, I learned about a generation of scientists who want to be the first on Mars. Astronauts mostly wear white and gray. What colors will they wear when they land?