THIS WEEK IN UBERCONSERATIVILLE

Observations/Ponderings from the last week:

The only way to get me to drink tea is if you buy the peppermint kind, put milk in it, and serve it with homemade snickerdoodles.

I will drink just about anything in order to have an excuse to eat homemade snickerdoodles.

Justice Scalia taught me that the Constitution should not be living. He says it's not illegal to burn the American flag. He also says it's ok to feel personally one way about an issue but to vote the opposite way on the issue as a judge. I'm surprised he wasn't crucified on the stage.

Why do even the shittiest of bars still have HD flat screen televisions in them? You can contract an STD from the toilet seats, but at least you get to see the game in HD!!!

Watching a big game is much more exciting in a group (even in a group of complete strangers -- say, at On the Border in the bar where you eat dinner by yourself, just hypothetically) than watching a big game by yourself.

The best time to go shopping for anything is during the big game.

If someone tells you that you're strong believe them. Even if you don't feel strong at the time, you will discover that they are right. People are always searching for weakness, so if they see strength it must be there.

I have been obsessing over the kid issue. Do we have kids here? Do I have a choice about where I have kids? If I try to hold out on having kids until we move will it be too late? What if we never move? Have we already waited too long to have kids? Do we even want to have kids? Kids, kids, kids.

How do you talk your family into going to family therapy? Do you just surprise them with a visit from Dr. Phil? Do you conspire to trick them all into going to the same therapist at the same time by telling them they're going somewhere else and taking them to therapy instead?

Is it really possible to give up on part of your family and forget about them and not care anymore? Truly?

Does family really mean so much, or can you make your own family by surrounding yourself with people you love?

Can the local newscasters get any worse? Please, let the answer be "no".

Does advertising that your company answers the phone with a West Texas accent REALLY help sell your products? Seriously?