intertext

I agree about rampant idealism and fundamentalism. Then again, that may be targeted at me, so I might have it wrong (but I was joking about breaking the law, like I do about most things). I like your observation about "brothers and sisters." The most hilarious thing about that to me is that I think that makes you a union person, at least at our place of employment, because I don't know a single person who says "brother" or "sister" so and so without a great deal of eye rolling or smirking. Maybe there are people somewhere who can use the faux-siblingesque without irony, but not where we're at. I love our irony most of all.