  Ah 2004 is almost here and the political unrest in my urban family has come to a head. At "church" (I must say that church consists of all of my friends and I showing up at the urlLink GranFaloon to watch football and drink beer all afternoon long) Jay and I have political discussions about pretty much everything.
Okay. Calling it a discussion is really stretching it. Basically, Jay is a liberal who browbeats you with moot points and illogical arguments (like we were friends with Saddam, but now we don't like him when you argue the point that History and time and politics changes things such as Hitler and Stalin were pals till Hitler decided to try to invade Russia or that we weren't friends with the British for a while back in the Revolutionary War but they are one of our closest allies now) and doesn't let you get a word in to make a point.
Jay could argue that you are breathing wrong. We've had a discussion, while drunk, so there was our first mistake about gun control. Jay, who believes guns should be controlled because they are getting way out of hand and very disrespectful to their parents tried to argue that the consequences are the same if you hit someone with your car drunk or shoot someone. I said not true because the most you would get with hitting someone with a car if your drunk is a DUI or DWI and vehicular homicide which might land you a few years in the pokey but there are people with 10-20 DUIs still driving where as someone who shoots another person could get Murder 2 or manslaughter which holds stiffer penalties. He said, no way. I said, I've studied criminal law buster. He didn't stop till we stopped listening.
I don't even try to talk to him because he gets his news from the newspaper and I try to be educated and look at several sources such as CSpan, CNN and Fox news, most local news, the paper, internet sites such as the cato institute and oxblog. I don't claim to know everything that there is to know about politics. I actually hate politics. I think there's nothing worse than politics because basically it's not true, it's who has the best story. I think there's some real people in Washington but they are few and I wouldn't have a beer and a pizza with most of them. But in Jay's case, I have to remind myself that you should never argue with an idiot. Bystanders can't tell the difference. 
