Why the Holidays Suck:

Ya know, the thing I hate most about holidays is sharing them with family. And by family I don’t mean; your brothers, your sisters, or your parents. No by family I mean the people who are connected to you by much weaker ties; cousins, aunts and uncles, and people who are like family but are not an actual blood relation. These people are what make the holidays a little more horrid. They aren’t relatives that your required to be nice to, nor are they people you would normally choose to hang around with.

This thanksgiving it was my mother’s friend Randy who took me to that special place. While Randy is a good enough guy to whom I have received a variety of medicinal cares from ( and will be receiving some acupuncture this weekend I think.. or from his new mentor/guru Dr. Lee). Randy has two things that ReALLY annoy me.

#1) The Chris Rock Principle: “Have some new $h! * happen to you. Randy tells several stories, like what happened when a bunch of Samoan heathens solidly duped the Mormon Church into taking them into Utah. Fun story, I find it amusing... but lets tell another one.

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#2) He is a moonbat. I mean he is a few nuts shy of being a granola man, by the events of chance he didn’t end up being a surfer or a ski head, randy is one of those people who is totally out there. He has embraced this whole “wisdom of the east yet strangely hippie lifestyle” and he has of course embraced the entire volume of whack job hippie conspiracy lingo. I at one time would engage him in it, but on holidays I find such a task kinda wrong.

But as I hear him spout off his nuttery I wonder if his being a foster kid, then later adopted by a Mormon family lead by a prominent Mormon out in Utah/child molester out in Utah might have had something to do with it. The fact he later ended up with his mother who was only slightly more stable could be another thing. He married this part Persian and part French woman who leaves him with her kids every six weeks while she spends a few weeks in Paris. Randy drifts to nursing jobs in other parts of the country and lives out in the woods on his “vacation”. His poor kids in addition to enduring this have also had to spend a year in France, where upon their return they had to suck up a lot of remediation (but remember folks the French have a better school system then we do.. right)

I hear him talk about how horrible the French Soviet Socialist Republic was, then hear him advocate socialism which he will admit doesn’t work

I spent a decent click of time avoiding his attempts to use the Meme of “The religious right is taking over the country” and how “religious extremists are trying to take over” and other things the moonbat worldview fears here, but tolerates everywhere else. I could have attacked this point in a mean way, or in a nice way but I choose to let him foam in his moonbattery while I ate turkey and the stuffing.