RANT MODE:

Alright. Although I do not try to make my political views evident to everyone, I do not try to keep it a secret either. I'm not one of those snotty people who are all "I can't tell you my political views. I want to appear balanced but I'm really not because I'm actually totally biased but you can't say that because I haven't told you which way I swing" (swing... sounded wierd).

BUT.

I'm also not one of those people who are all: "I am hardcore such and such and anyone who thinks otherwise is a stupid pinhead."

HOWEVER.

Okay. When talking politics with someone you don't know, have never met before, or has never said anything to you about politics, don't ASSuME their political background.

For instance:

Oh, before I begin, this is also an example at how completely stupid and ridiculous people are today.

I have to do a research paper on the antihero and so skipped off to my poorly stocked local library. While the librarian was chatting away at me, a man who had been waiting in line behind me for her help, suddenly approached us to make a statement thanking her for something or other she had done previously for him.

AND THEN.

He turned to me and asked: "What books are you choosing for your antihero project?" After mumbling a shy response involving Louis Pointe du Lac and Humbert Humbert, he then proceeded to say: "Why don't you use George Bush? *laugh* There ain't nothing literary about him!"

:emo:

Was my response. First of all---

JUST BECAUSE I AM A CHILD OF THE 21st CENTURY DOES NOT MEAN I AM A LIBERAL DEMOCRAT.

I hate when people ASSume that since children have no minds of their own, they simply follow what is considered the "minority" (although ironically, it is no longer). Also, since I am a child, I would believe in Signor Obama and his "promise" for "change". (And what change is coming from the former Clinton cabinet, I do not know).

SECOND--

WHEN YOU DO NOT KNOW SOMEONE, YOU DO NOT AUTOMATICALLY ASSUME THEIR POLITICAL BACKGROUND.

Seriously? That's just stupid. I had never met nor seen the man before in my life. How would he know whether I too partook in the bashing of our presidente? How would he know I was a democrat or a republican or an independent? He wouldn't! So, as to why he pushed his politics on me, I do not understand. I know, FOR A FACT, I wouldn't go up to someone I did not know and say something like: "Hey. Obama doesn't have half a clue what he's doing, huh? He really does not belong in the oval office." First, it's rude and second, you don't know how the other person will respond.

Now. The best for last:

President George W. Bush. "There ain't nothing literary about him!"

My good, kind sir! That statement right there just proved that you are even less literary than how you consider him!

First, I am doing a literary research project. That means I have to use literary works. If you believe that there was nothing literary about the man, then why on God's good earth would you suggest him! Next, much like how "antisocial" is often misused in society today, I believe that he had misused "antihero" as well! Monsieur Stranger, are you aware of what an antihero is?

An antihero is a literary figure who either goes against the traditional roles of a hero or defies society and its sterotypical expectations.

Mon Dieu! Mein Herr, please stay in your area of football and beer! Leave literature and politics alone for those who understand it! Please do not attempt to be friendly in such a biased, unintellegent fashion!

*huffs*

Well, now that that is off my chest, on to my next rant:

I attend to churches. One every other week. In one church, everything is beautifully conservative and traditional. The people are charming, sincere, and perfectly ettiquette. In the other church, people are rash, rude, condesending, and socially awkward.

Since I too am socially awkward, I really cannot blame some of them. However, despite this embarrassing inability, I try my best to be polite to those I do not know. This usher, however, is the rudest man I have come across in a church.

"If you want communion, you gotta go downstairs."

Sir. You can't be a gentleman and say "For those of you who wish to receive communion, please head downstairs" or "Communion is being held downstairs" or even "Please come downstairs for communion"?

ALSO.

This is the only church I have attended where they MUST sing FIVE OR MORE SONGS at the start of the mass and sing EVERY VERSE. They then proceed to sing every time after the priest makes a simple statement. I love music. With all my heart and soul, but please. This is too much for an hour long ritual. To go along with that, we always seem to have the horrible luck of getting the school's guest choir presentation in which the children stand together and sing the choruses, but the real person singing is their instructor and he sings everything, you can't even hear the children. He gets the gosh darn microphone. The children don't need to be there. The man can just sing himself. It sounds like so already.

AND.

THEY NEED TO CUT THE CRAP WITH THE SYNTHESIZERS. No. Running a hand down the keyboard hitting every note is not cool. It is not hip. It is not shway. That, plus the fact that you are playing a cheap keyboard, an aucostic guitar, and have a grown man singing, drowning out the voices of the children, makes it worse. The music is not hip. It is annoyingly synthesized... stuff.The songs you were playing were beautiful before you screwed them up trying to make them cool. "Oh, Little Town of Bethlehem" is a gorgeous song. I especially loved when Frank Sinatra sang it. But with your added "hippness" and attempt to be "in" you turned it around and gave it a stompable mainstream sound.

However, there are wonderful people in the world. Last week I got kissed by a complete stranger upon leaving the other church. I had been sitting next to her during mass and at the end, before she left, she went up to me, patted my cheeks, called me a lovely girl, and kissed my cheek. Then proceeded to do the same with my mother.

Lovely, sweet woman. 3

More ranting? Hrm. I went to Borders and was overjoyed to do so as I finally have money. I walk right in and smack into the Twitard books. Then I wandered about in absolute bliss that I could look for books and take my time, skipping about looking for Alexander Dumas and comparing all the different versions of The Divine Comedy and trying to figure out which version was best--and cheapest. Then, I came across a man who I am sure I will soon become obsessed over: Sebastian Horsley. Misogynist or not. I really don't care.

So. Upon waiting in line, blissfully happy about my choices in books, my world was shattered as I heard the woman in front of me requesting for the Twitard series in audio. Then the woman who helped me pay for my books had a stupid button that said "I was bitten by Breaking Dawn". I don't get it. "Real Vampire Don't Sparkle". Oooh, I get that.

But okay. I think I've ranted enough.