Reply #23: May I be excused? [View All]

[callous taoboy]

I am boycotting the family thanksgiving today. There have been too many words between us, nasty insinuations about my liberal beliefs have been left on my coffee table for me to read later after they have visited (e.g. we liberals are actually tittering with glee with each G.I. death in Iraq). Last time I visited with the folks it was painfully awkward because we really had nothing to say. Somehow we limped upon a discussion of news, they claiming that fox news is fair and balanced.
I, of course, politely disagreed and was soundly thrashed, and before I knew it my step-mother was spewing some nonsense about how gay marriage would produce a backlash of divorce amongst both gay and straight couples.

My time off is like gold to me, my family more like tarnished copper at this time. So I plan to fast and take a hike.