So, I am just home from a visit from the grandparents. It is always interesting to take a foray into the wilds of the ultra conservative. I learn things. For example, you can tell something about women who wear men’s shoes.
Many secrets revealed and TOP COMMENTS (ok, and lots of GIN) below.....
Every time I visit, my grandmother has a doozy. There is always something I had never considered.
Item number one: If you have three or more drinks in a week, you are an alcoholic. I suspect I’ll be a raging drunk by the time TC posts tonight!!!
Item number two: Grandmother says: "I thought she was a lesbian.....she walked funny.....you know how they all do......like they are wearing men’s shoes!" There you go!!! Gaydar secrets revealed!!!!
I loved this one, too: Ambrosius: "I hate all of the testing. The Bush administration, with their No Child Left Behind garbage is destroying schools."
Grandmother: "Oh...If it is bad I’m sure that Hillary designed it."
Ambrosius: "No, it’s Bush. It’s the same horrible plan he created in Texas."
Grandmother: "You sure it wasn’t Hillary? She’s pretty awful, you know."
Sigh.....
Ok....a quick turn to the serious. I find it interesting to consider that I am so very different from them. It has become much more than me being the family’s black sheep. In fact, I think we agree on nothing. Ok....we both think the world of my late mother and care about my sister. There are a couple of other things, but that may be it.
I always find it interesting to spend time with the minority who believe that Bush is up to good things. I didn’t gain any insights into that state of affairs except for this: we just see the world in fundamentally different ways. Frankly, I’m not sure that the gap can be bridged. I try to make small nudges, and I feel like I stand up for what I believe in, but I don’t know that I can do enough. We can’t have an intelligent, dispassionate conversation. Maybe for us it is familial baggage, but I can’t imagine even having a conversation with people who feel as they do, excepting that we are related and can work around most everything (since we agree one just about nothing!).
Well, I’m home, where the only way to turn is left!
NOW.....THE TOP COMMENTS!!!!!
I know that you forgot that you can submit comments to TopComments AT gmail DOT com. Comments submitted without a username will be credited to Ambrosius!
From terrypinder:
Heh. Most disturbing comment ever.
A punny thread.
From BentLiberal:
I'd like to nominate Turkana's "comment" form "diary."
From Buhdydharma:
Schroedinger's Refrigerator Light by aztecraingod from The gReatest invention in WoRld HistoRy by Randolph06.
Top Mojo is courtesy of BeninSC! (thanks, Ben!!!)
Top Mojo - excluding search-identifiable tip jars, first diary comments and C&J comments:
1 Bush hasn't sent his corporate friends - by exmearden - 210
2 Public Disservice by drational - 182
3 Great diary by wmtriallawyer - 108
4 the state of texas divorced us! by khereva - 85
5 Thanks, SallyCat. by SaraPMcC - 77
6 On behalf of houseplants... by Spathiphyllum - 69
7 On behalf of moms worldwide, welcome too! by blue jersey mom - 64
8 Same for me by deha - 59
9 Here is why I wrote this Diary by Tom Rinaldo - 56
10 Changed your tag to 'community' not GBCW by SallyCat - 55
11 being a democrat in Oklahoma by TeresaInPa - 55
12 Recommended?! by SaraPMcC - 54
13 sucks to be y'all straights by terrypinder - 53
14 Disagree by JoeW - 52
15 and the awful irony to that AP article is that by exmearden - 51
16 little wonder... by Turkana - 51
17 Thanks for spotlighting Patrick by Dallasdoc - 50
18 This is an incredible piece of writing by pfiore8 - 49
19 I'm assuming that's Paul :) by SaraPMcC - 49
20 Just another day. by exmearden - 49
21 You Know, That is a Straight Line by LunkHead - 48
22 today's top comets!!!! by nonnie9999 - 47
23 TGIF by Debbie in ME - 47
24 I need to get out and run some errands by mjd in florida - 45
25 So THAT'S what Spathiphyllum means ... by bherner - 44
26 And please put up a by penguins4peace - 44
27 Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. by begone - 44
28 On behalf of by MajorFlaw - 43
29 I have few friends left in Baghdad, now by noweasels - 43
30 To quote a Republican I actually sort of respect by Unitary Moonbat - 43
Top Mojo - everything included:
1 And of course by eugene - 437
2 Tip Jar - 15 June by Jerome a Paris - 219
3 Bush hasn't sent his corporate friends - by exmearden - 210
4 Public Disservice by drational - 182
5 I hope this diary draws your favor by teacherken - 153
6 Its important by Frederick Clarkson - 152
7 I guess I should post StopIranWar.com's link by Tom Rinaldo - 140
8 How would Americans act if this happened by Diaries - 133
9 Tips, Comments, Etc. by MLDB - 109
10 On behalf of penguins worldwide, by penguins4peace - 108
11 Great diary by wmtriallawyer - 108
12 Tip Jar by LunkHead - 104
13 the sanctity of OUR marriage by condoleaser - 102
14 Tips for substance? by cosbo - 98
15 Tip Jar by kovie - 96
16 Friday Tip Jar..... by Bill in Portland Maine - 94
17 Tips for impeachment? by One Pissed Off Liberal - 93
18 the state of texas divorced us! by khereva - 85
19 Tip jar by Superribbie - 81
20 Tip by Carnacki - 79
21 Thanks, SallyCat. by SaraPMcC - 77
22 On behalf of houseplants... by Spathiphyllum - 69
23 On behalf of moms worldwide, welcome too! by blue jersey mom - 64
24 Abortion wars by william f harrison - 63
25 Tip jar by SaraPMcC - 63
26 Same for me by deha - 59
27 Here is why I wrote this Diary by Tom Rinaldo - 56
28 Changed your tag to 'community' not GBCW by SallyCat - 55
29 being a democrat in Oklahoma by TeresaInPa - 55
30 Recommended?! by SaraPMcC - 54