I attended a wedding for a relative recently. Lots of relatives from across the country were in attendence. Some of these people suffer from BDS. Inevitably, they could not keep their feelings bottled up and started in with the usual infantile name-calling about Bush. I suffered in silence for several minutes, then jumped on them hard, at which point a number of other people other people joined me, and things got a little unpleasant. We all finally dropped the matter, after which the moonbat aunt who had started the whole fracas was heard to comment on what a shame it was that people brought up politics at a wedding.

At the Manhattan office where I work, things are worse. My colleague’s seem to suffer from some strain of Tourette’s syndrome, and are appearently quite unable to control what comes out of their own mouths. I have politely informed them that I have differing opinions, and tried to tactfully suggest that they leave their political views outside the office. You can imagine how successful that has been.

Some people, while possessed of a superficial level of intelligence and sophistication, are simply lacking in basic common sense, decency, and empathy. I think there is an underlying societal problem here, and BDS and abortion and the rest are merely manifestations of it.

If we want to drop the topics of abortion and gay marriage, then fine, let’s drop them. But it seems to me that it is the self-styled “social liberals” here who keep bringing them up. It’s like an itch you people have to scratch.