If only...

ABQJournal columnist Thelma Domenici on the topic of political conversations:

"Every party to the conversation must be willing and able to listen long enough to hear what the other person is saying. No one should have an agenda ready with which to interrupt. It's the interruptions that cause those emery board conversations that grate upon us so."

Um hmm. Try having a political conversation with my dear (departed) rightward leaning father.

If only Thelma lived in my house back then....feh, he probably wouldn't have listened to her either! :)