Four for Friday

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Q1 - 180 Degrees: If you could suddenly proclaim that any one work of fiction (be it a movie, novel/book, short story, fable, fairy tale, play, etc.) was actually true, what would you choose?

But...aren't they all--or at least the good ones--true?? I mean, I don't believe that they are point-by-point fact, but fiction that's worth reading is by definition 'true', isn't it?

But, if pressed, I'd choose "Alice in Wonderland."

Q2 - Airline Safety: According to a recent report, approximately 96% of people involved in airplane accidents survive the accident itself and, aside from a fear of flying, experience no long-term health problems. When flying, do you take certain precautions or care to increase your chance of survival in event of a crash (i.e., choosing a certain seat in a specific part of the airplane or counting the number of seats between yourself and exit) or do you not like to think about such things?

No. If I started thinking this way, I'd never leave the house...my bed, in fact. It's too slippery a slope for me to even approach.

Q3 - Citizenship: Have you heard about this one? The latest effort to rewrite the election of 2008... an accusation that that President-elect Barack Obama is not a legitimate natural-born American, and therefore cannot be sworn into office. The argument, which is being taken all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, goes something like this: When Barack Obama was born in 1961, Kenya was still a British colony. Obama's father was from Kenya, and therefore a British citizen. That British citizenship automatically passed onto his son (President-elect Obama), and that means that President-elect Obama--who was born in the U.S.--was born with dual citizenship and should not be allowed to hold the Office of the Presidency. What do you think this? Should the President of the United States be allowed to hold dual citizenship? (By the way, for the record, President-elect Obama's dual citizenship expired when he turned 21.)

Oh, puh-leeze. That same kind of reasoning would exclude McCain, since he was born in Panama. Get over your fucking selves, you idiot law-mongering fools.

My nieces and nephew now have dual citizenship--the U.S. laws have changed since Obama turned 21--but they are not legally allowed to be president because they were born in England. Not that they'd want to, but ... trust me: they are over it.[

One has to wonder if this would be an issue if the 'other country' were England. Or France. Or Israel. Or...[other allied-with-us nationality].

Q4 - Overrated: Who do you think is the most overrated (you choose... actor, politician, professional athlete, or musician)?

98.3% of them. The ones who are underrated are those whose names are not recognized as soon as they are said or read. I was just talking about this with my hairdresser this morning, after spending half an hour reading junk magazines (OK! I think this time). I don't like these people--why I read this crap is beyond me.