If I am ever granted a superpower of my choosing, it would be Freaky Friday powers. Putin in the body and life of a lesbian! Mitt Romney as a poor black woman! Bobby Jindal as a homeless vet with mental illness! And just like in the movies, they can't switch back until they've learned a Very Important Lesson.

Nora, I'm sorry you're still sick!

Cripple Rand Paul for me, and you have a deal. Or maybe Paul ryan. Either way one of those guys needs to tell a social worker that he wets his pants and have someone ponder how much the aggravation of it all is "worth" and face a local business that doesn't find ramps cost-effective.

erika, it would be my greatest pleasure.

I get so frustrated because I don't have the philosphical/economic/rhetorical underpinnings to really dismantle what he's saying, like that whole "Legislatively confiscating a persons wages against his/her will and then keeping them for yourself is not freedom."

I think you did a pretty good job dismantling his assumptions, smonster.

It's like trying to debate a goddamn house elf, except that they have more of a clue about what slavery really is.

Now he's all butthurt and doesn't understand why people are upset with him. He was poor once! His credit card was declined at the grocery store!

He is an entitled selfish shithead. I really loathe people with the mindset of Fuck You, I Deserve Every Cent That I Earned And By The Way You Should Have Gotten A Degree Even Though You Were Born Into Systemic Poverty And Horrific Racial Discrimination.

I'd like to say that if he were on fire I wouldn't piss on him to put it out, but the thing is, *I* actually care about people in pain/need. So I would probably put his fucking fire out, even though he seems to prefer to NOT pay taxes to fund the fire department that would actually put him out if he were on fire.

I put my oar in the water.

But I fear this guy's mindset for discussion is a bit like someone I bumped into on a forum for discussing The Mentalist, who was complaining of huge plot holes that I didn't see as plot holes because there were at least three scenes over two episodes addressing the issue. When I pointed out those scenes, she called them throwaway lines that don't count. i wanted to reply, "'Lalalalalaalalalal I can't hear you.' is not a valid argument."

And then there was the time my brother insisted that President Obama was responsible for the record setting deficit of the fiscal year that began a month before he was elected into office, and I explained to him the difference between a fiscal year and a calendar year, and showed him the CBO website that backed me up. And instead of acknowledging that he was wrong, he went into such a huge rage my SiL made him unfriend me on Fb.

Putin in the body and life of a lesbian! Mitt Romney as a poor black woman! Bobby Jindal as a homeless vet with mental illness! And just like in the movies, they can't switch back until they've learned a Very Important Lesson.

I say never switch them back. Let the poor black woman have Romney's life and the homeless vet have Jindal's. After all, they're not going to learn any life lessons. They already know it's better to be rich.

Nora, I'm sorry you're still sick!

Well, I am getting better (went to urgent care earlier this week) but having to cover Louisiana Craft Brewer Week this past week has put a crimp on my recovery. The next week and a half should be low key though, until we go to Denver for the Great American Beer Festival.

I say never switch them back. Let the poor black woman have Romney's life and the homeless vet have Jindal's. After all, they're not going to learn any life lessons. They already know it's better to be rich.

Fair point.

I think this hangover may actually be another migraine. Dammit. Unclear.

Okay, I dropped the mic and walked away. Stay walked away, smonster. Go do work. Let it go.