What's worse- Closeted Conservatives or Passive Agressive Nonsense?

At this point you've been introduced to both Carmen and I in one way or another. So now its just time to get into it.

I just got back from California this week- for business- and through the hectic logistics, car accident, and overall madness I learned a couple of things- well more of reiterated some things I already know.

So everyone is talking about the closeted conservatives of California- shocking. No not shocking, not at all. I mean come on the Terminator is our governor, some of the richest cities and counties are located in within our borders, the Conservative revolution of the 1960's started in our version of the deep south, and we create a new proposition for each election rather than addressing issues through passing positive legislative reform. We put out fires legislatively instead of focusing on the building real infrastructure to make sure we don't have large parts of the state being burnt in the real fires that need to be put out every year. We want medicinal marijuana and free range chicken, but health care, rights for undocumented students and workers are too much of a stretch. So yes California is the state of the closeted conservative. So next time we build a propositional campaign I say we make them the targeted audience instead of preaching to the choir.

Now I understand the closeted conservative, however what continues to perplex me is something that lies not on party lines- its more of an equal opportunity hate. There is no better way to describe it than calling it passive aggressive nonsense. For example...

When you hear "What's the problem?" or "Well- what do you think we should do?" and my favorite " I mean do what you want to" these are all signs that someone is being completely passive aggressive. I know you all know this but I realized over this week that my response to passive aggressive attempts at making points result in 1 of 2 things in me: 1) Looking dumbfounded and shocked and probably appearing to be borderline offensive and 2) Repeating what you have just said back from my perspective (I.e. You mean what do you think we should do?). See the common lesson learned here is- nonsense out will only get you nonsense in return. Don't be surprised when people respond to you this way or when you get slapped in the face I mean that's "What I thought I should do," to answer your question.

And really if we're going to go the nonsensical route why not just do it upfront and out loud. It'll save us all some time, decoding, and aggression. I mean save the aggression for the bedroom- alright?