We need more extreme and controversial viewpoints. Come on you UFO/Illuminati guys, and Pro Death Penalty Right-To-Birthers, you Bush Knew People, all varieties of Misanthropes, Dreamers, Crackpots, Utopians, Paranoids, Visionaries, this is your home and soapbox.

Find me a paranoid visionary and I'll show you one highly unstable individual! Talk about cognitive dissonance...

I just managed to blame a school full of low advanced placement scores on 9/11, that's got to count as crackpot.

I invited a suicidal teenager to live in my home. That's got to be an historic "sue me please" gesture. And, if her parents don't sue me, I'll surely be subpoenaed for downloading songs to be used to help her through this time (music kindly suggested by the other soapbox teeterers around here).

I'm happy to argue the "no one who who did not at one point have a uterus should get to voice an opinioin about the contents of mine" concept but I was still exercising discretion during that thread.

How about this: No one from the North(ern US) knows how to cook? That's a comment from my 92 year old grandmother and I kind of like it. I mean, what's so confusing about grits? They're wet popcorn, and an excuse to eat butter with either brown sugar or lots of salt.

Eleanor Roosevelt told me to quit my job, and I did it. Is it still paranoia if it doesn't bother you to receive such messages?

I will not accept that Muslim women are thrilled when their children die in suicide bombings because even if they act overjoyed that the children will receive great rewards in the afterlife, I believe that the heart of a mother cannot fail to mourn a child she formed and fed with her own body. I practically ended up divorced over that conversation, so it must be worth a few angry words here. Speaking of which, my husband is getting so Republican I'm truly getting scared he suffered some sort of head injury when I wasn't looking.

I have a terrible desire to run up to Catholic people and ask them (the ones to whom this applies) if they considered it a sin to use birth control when they were engaging in pre-marital sex. (I live in the same town as Pat Robertson and went to college in Jerry Falwell's neighborhood. He spoke of the students at my school as intellectual whores, or so they say. In any case, long term proximity to either of those indivviduals one of those alone is enough to screw someone's head up for life and make you just a little crazy on the topic of religion.)

I live in one of the larger oceanfront resort towns in the US and I went to Northern Ireland (Londonderry) for my honeymoon. Why celebrate with alcohol, fruit juice and little umbrellas when you can begin your new life in earshot of gunfire after just having been frisked?

While I am rambling, I hope I've at least gotten somebody ready to argue even if I've not managed to demonstrate my loudmouth, crackpot, muleheaded potential. Excuse me, I'm going to go finish reading Rule by Secrecy now. I hope the writer explains all those mysterious "Z"s that appear all over the grounds of Mr. Jefferson's college. 

Kelly (who's hoping she can blame this disorganized rant on Gene's martinis.)