The thing I don't get.

[leahbobet]

Okay, this will show something pointed about my priorities, but here is the thing I just cannot wrap my head around about the whole American "teabagging" thing--

(Pause while I snerk, die, and gasp, "Words mean things!" while giggling like I'm 12.)

--yeah. Okay. Serious. The thing.

How the hell can people countenance wasting all that food?

Not just "in these tough economic times" (drink). In general. How do you waste that much food without batting an eye?

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[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Which part? The over-privileged American, or the part wherein my hatred of Republicans is not entirely rational? *g*

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

The grokking that political sentiments are not an objective reflection of the absolutely true reality but in fact, have elements of subjectivity.

(It is one of the things that drives me up the wall about political talk. Moreso since I became officially non-partisan and decided I actually kind of like it. There is no objective bad guy.)

P.S.: O hai Benton.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Pretty Mountie is pretty.

I mostly try not to talk about politics, because I know perfectly well that the way my blood pressure climbs is an indication that I am neither objective nor rational on the subject. Also filled with festering hate.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

*looks at the pretty Mountie*

My tolerances for it have done peculiar things since I started living, breathing, and eating it for 40 hours a week and sometimes in my off-hours. I find the actual processes fascinating now, the balancing-act of writing good legislation and trying to not let down whole groups of people? But I no longer have any patience whatsoever for unquestioning partisanship of any stripe. I think watching the government of the day use the same procedural tactics as the (different party) government of 25 years ago really burns it out of you.