re: #30 wrenchwench

I really can’t say it doesn’t affect me. I’m not the most intelligent guy but at least I try to educate myself. The amount of people that get their beliefs from a Fox talking head, Rush, and the Republican Baptist Fundy coo coo clock is amazing. My freaking base player is hooked on Oxy. Tore his back up. I’m not sure if that’s 100% correct. I suspect he’s just hooked, and can’t kick, and I know a few like him. Gets in my ride (because he lost his licence for DWI) and starts off with “Welllll I was watching Hannity last night, and General Petraeus was on and said over 100 thousand were already here..” And all I can say is “Shut the fuck up. I’m not talking politics. Just shut the fuck up.” Then we go down memory lane, and all around the world on the 1/2 hour ride to the closet we rehearse in. And in two weeks we are back with, “Welllll, I was…
Frustrating. Half the time I can’t really say anything because it would be a fight. So i snipe when I can and slog on. “Whatever” “Sure” “Yeah. Right.”