Thursday, November 6, 2008

Recipe for Instant Conflict

Just add politics and religion!!

You know, my family also has a blog where we all write and keep in touch and post pictures of our kids and stuff. Fun! Nice! What a loving family! The blog includes my aunts and uncles and cousins on one side of the family, and we're really a pretty tight knit group. And, of course, we have our little eye-rolling moments about one another from time to time. Some of us grumble about the wallflowers of the group who rarely post on there when the rest of us are doin our best to keep involved in lives that are scattered across the country. But, we had this election thing the other day (in case you didn't notice the pleasant reduction in political ads in the middle of Dancing With the Stars, and the huge disruption in having to wait an extra day to get that untalented waif Susan Lucci kicked off the show - eat a sandwich, for Pete's sake and get off the dance floor!). And there have been a few political comments on the family blog and now it is all tense and junk. Damnit, don't we all know by now that the fastest way to tension is to add some politics and a dash of religion?! Rest assured, folks, neither topic will be showing its face on this blog. I blog in peace....

1 comment:

Em said...

I still don't get the tension. It's all perspective. If you're gonna let yourself get upset every time someone says something that differs in opinion to what you think/believe then you're gonna be upset a lot. Am I the only one who thinks the whole thing is ridiculous? Just chalk it up to family eccentricities and move on.