Loving Typo Boy's mom.
Cackling at StuntHusband.
Okay, can someone please tell me to back away from the town hall "debate" video links? I want to reach through the innertubes and strangle the stupid, and I'm a pacifist.
The saddest part? My maternal grandfather is totally one of those wingnuts. He has now provoked both my mother and father into raising their voices at him (which Is Not Done in my family) (seriously, my mother has never in her life raised her voice to her father) by continually spouting rightist crap and simply talking (v. loudly) over anyone's response.
I thought going to visit them was bad when Bush was in office but IT'S GOTTEN WORSE. Between Glen Beck on 24/7, my grandfather's right wing babble and bible-quoting, the thermostat perma-set at 85, and my grandmother with Alzheimer's who soils herself constantly, it's as near to hell as I've been on this earth. I know it makes my mom really sad, but she pretty much agrees that I shouldn't go visit any more. I feel guilty, but at this point I just want to cling to what childhood memories are left.
Hold me?
(wow, sorry for posting a novel. apparently I really needed that off my chest.)