Inspiration

I started getting that weird inner restless feeling lately and realized it's been quite some time since I've read something other than a how-to or self-improvement book. So I just got from the libary what is turning out to be a lovely book. I don't know if it'll end up on my recommended list, but it is witty enough that I find it inspiring and a good chuckle. "We're Just Like You--Only Prettier." Written from a "Southern Belle's" perspective, they're little essays of just observing the eccentrities of Southern life and life in general. It's only made me laugh out loud once, but I'm only on the third essay.

I do have one little criticism, though, and it isn't unique to this book but an observation of my own. Why must Democrats/Liberals/Leftists always end up in one way or another bashing those they don't agree with? I'm getting to the point of feeling that if it's a left-leaning person writing a food review, I expect them to somehow politisize it and use it as an opportunity to slam a Republican/Christian/Bush. "The beet tartar was divine, and I devoured it as if it were a Bush-loving Christian Republican slathered in honey, bound and dropped on a fire ant hill, savoring each writhing and shrieking bite until the end." You get the general idea. I have always found it fascinating that my liberal leaning friends can send e-mails and make comments that are basically insulting my intelligence and questioning my moral integrity, yet they still want to hang out with me. I'm a dumb slimy snake but make good company, evidently.

I, on the other hand, am acutely aware of who my liberal friends are and purposely stay away from any topic remotely close to politics, although that's a real challenge because it seems that everything is somehow connected to politics, even tampons.

"Are those fair trade tampons?"

"Um, I'm not sure, let me pull it out and check, k?"

I'm also amused by the fact that these incredibly judgmental people are so "tolerant." That's quite a balancing act. Bush is the Devil and should die a slow painful death, but Sadam had a bad childhood, and we must understand where he's coming from and what made him do what he did, cause we know down deep he's a really good person. He was a baby once, just like you. Bush, on the other hand, is the Devil's spawn--pure and simple. Ah yes, let us not forget that they are also not concrete like those idiot Republicans. Nothing is ever just black and white. Life is just too complex. It's all various shades of gray. However, Bush is evil and must die. That is not gray.