"meh. I suppose all the purity rituals in leftist organization - banning people, demanding adherance to behavior rules, constant search for anyone who doesn't toe the line, are you a real marxist or a mere liberal or progressive, if, among progressives, are you a whack job commie - belies the idea that purity is a conservative thing."
Who says a lot of Marxist grouplets are not basically conservative? I had the misfortune of belonging to a Trotskyist sect for a couple of years. I thought they were extremely conservative.
"Aside: Also, don't forget that, while waiting to eat, people may actually be hungry. With so much of our health problems being connected to a diet high in refined carbohydrates and eating too much at one meal, people increasingly have big blood sugar swings that make them very cranky, irritable, and anxious when they don't eat."
Very very true. But what my daughter observed was that they were bitchy before they got a table and lamb-like afterward....still fifteen, twenty minutes before actual food arrived. Though granted, when they sat down, there was bread and water.
Joanna
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