For most people, our individual, day-to-day lives supercede whatever is going on in the world-at-large. Whatever is more immediate is therefore more important... but we all have opinions on world issues, and they come out when we aren't thinking about whatever is most immediate in our lives. They reveal themselves at dinner parties (after a few drinks), on BBS boards, while writing (shameless plug: OUR ORWELL, RIGHT OR LEFT will be in bookstores autumn 2008
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I am deeply and unabashedly political, but for me Pelican OT is a place for laughs and frivolity, so I tend to stay out of political/religious conversations here. But "in real life" I probably rant and rave just as much (if not more) than anyone here. What keeps me sane? Friends, family, beautiful girls, fast cars, music/movies/books, and a stiff drink now and then.