Shlup
is almost as funny as Nait
Quack

I would brag about how well I know you, but you've told that "Ethiopian cuisine" joke pretty much every chance you've gotten for the past 4 or 5 years.

I knew you'd love my anti-jokes. There's just no way to resist that much awesome.

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And now, Final fantasy party style!



I wonder how they follow each other perfectly?

You're the one on the right.

At least you recognize you're basically Christian In Name Only. My dad calls himself Christian and seems to think worse of non-Christians in general... and I asked him straight-up if he believed in Jesus as the virgin birth/son of god thing and he said "No." The precise amount religion has taken up in his thought in the past 10 years has been devoted mostly with, along with me, trying to get out of going to church when we visit family.

I also love the "criticizing religion for bigotry is bigotry" arguments. Best example.

A lot of my step-dad's friends and the people in this area in general are real white trash.

The one time I did speak up at my step-mom's was during their ranting about illegal immigration, trying to point out that easier legal immigration would cut down on all of the concerns that can be readily controlled, and the counter-intuitive result of stronger borders keeping more illegal immigrants here. The friend's wife actually seemed to listen to some of it (or just didn't have a counter argument and just shut up).

Now, of course, they probably think I'm some sort of hippie communist (I know my step-mom knows I'm not, but I also know my dad told her I'm an atheist due to one joke she made about me not being struck by lightning if I entered a church). On a related note, I do sometimes wonder what some of my major Republican relatives would think of the fact that I'm an atheist.

I had to survive a weekend with some of my step-mom's friends (all wealthy, white conservatives). One proclaimed that criticism of the US for slavery is unjustified because other people had slaves. US slaves had it good, understand. I was biting my tongue throughout most of the evening. Later I had to hear my step-dad's friends talk about how the "damn blacks" run everything and if you even dare to say the word "nigger" you'll get hauled off to court (I'm waiting for my summons now). And then I have to semi-regularly hear from my step-dad himself about how Obama is a Muslim terrorist, and whatever latest talking point has been spouted by Sean Hannity.

So yes, I know your pain.

A high school friend posted a link encouraging bans on burqas in Western countries. We've had an interesting facebook debate on the subject which I thought about posting here, but I figured that our mutual disparagement of certain Islamic practices would get some people in a hissy fit.

Still it might be interesting. Or entertaining. Or both!

And I would say our debate was better than you and your dad's, but then you'd counter with something like "toddlers burping on each other would have more intellectual value than what comes out of my family's mouths" and then I'd just be letting you mock yourself (or your blood relations, anyway) instead of me mocking you. I can't have that.