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I am one of an endangered species - conservative Ph.D.. I don't argue with liberals, waste of my time.

I don't argue with friends or family relations. I don't have a desire to “make” someone agree with me.

Years ago, I had a friend who had enough intelligence to make really big mistakes. I enjoyed her company and she talked all the time. Usually, it was about her various family members and I enjoyed hearing her interpretation of her family. I had no desire to correct her mistakes, I just let it roll off and enjoyed her for what she was.

However, I had another friend who was a stickler for fact and she had an incurable desire to force her way of thinking on everyone. When the three of us were together, the stickler got infuriated every time because she had to convince the talker that she was wrong and the talker wasn't getting it - she just talked longer and refused the logic of the stickler.

I didn't interfere, I just let them go at it, knowing in the end, each would be exactly like she was before it started.

The talker had strange takes on life. One day she said, “I always keep a lot of cash in the house in case a family member gets arrested and needs bail. The jail doesn't want to take checks.”

Inside myself I was laughing. It was just like her to think that and prepare for that event. I suppose at some time in her past, a family member had been arrested for something. Do you have cash set aside in case you get arrested and need cash for bail? That had never crossed my mind.

I enjoyed both of those ladies, but it was war when they got together.

When I was in high school I knew a woman who was a vegetarian. Not because she loved animals, but she thought that someday aliens would come to Earth and use "inferior" humans for food, and she didn't want to be a hypocrite.

She wasn't joking.

I wonder what asylum she lives in now.

Probably a professor at Berkely.