I trust that those of you who did the family thing over the weekend survived alright. Despite some rather glaring differences of opinion between myself and my in-laws over things like the MTA strike, dubya, and the whole Iraq debacle, we managed to avoid fisticuffs and have a nice time. It’s interesting how my father-in-law can think that FDR was a great man, that we need some socialism in this country to even things out between the corporatists who can afford to buy politicians, and the rest of us, that we need a national health system, that what they’re doing to old people sucks, that dubya has done a lot of really stupid things, and yet he still, somehow, disagrees with me that dubya is the worst president in my lifetime, thinks Iraq really showed all the dictators in the world not to mess with the US of A, and he still thinks that Gore or Kerry would have done a worse job – or at least wouldn’t have been any better than this idiot we have now. Oh, and that Clinton should have been thrown in jail. 😕 I mean, what does it take?