java - I certainly hope you are including yourself on that list. You take the time to pose questions to people about where they are coming from even if you know the answer is going to be something you fundamentally disagree with. And that? Is also very important.

I love us.

I'm just going to let Aims be my spokesmodel all over the Interwebs.

java, you are the awesomest.

I'm just going to let Aims be my spokesmodel all over the Interwebs.

I'd be proud to do so!

On a related note, memo to Ross Douthat [link] : Welcoming the stranger is not just a political ideal, it is also a cultural value. A pretty important one in the America I grew up in, actually. The America that knew that those immigration restrictions you speak of so highly killed many of my relatives.

Wow, did I not want to come home to find out that the a/c has decided to quit working. Uncool. In more ways than one.

What javachik said.

That Douthat article makes me want to quote at him one of the few Christian Bible verses I know: "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for therby some have entertained Angels unaware."

I can't decide if I'm still glad I'm not on Facebook. I'm sorry that I'm missing some buffista eloquence.

If only he weren't so often a douchehat himself.

Java is hoew I measure how strident I am being. If she thinks I am over the line, I likely am.

In "we can disagree an still joke" news: this dude who made my middle school life hell and is still kind of a dick (though I don't know if he realizes who I am because I do not use my maiden name) commented on a mutual friend's posting of the NY neighborhood photos with something about freedom of religion being all fine and good, but the community should get rid of the bad ones. To which I replied "So, all of them?" And he, to his credit, replied. "Yep. Except for Scientology, the one true religion." To which I quoted The Manchurian Candidate.

Is it okay that my form of measurement for "one being over the line" is tokes?