Oh how we love to pigeonhole people and then sneer at them! I think older people who are struggling with illness, really anyone struggling with illness, but especially older people and poor people, are the most stigmatized. No one wants to hire them, people get impatient with them, people even make awful remarks about them; I see this all the time. Funny how we all laughed when we learned of India’s caste system while at the same time we were so studiously building one in the USA. Our society has a great deal of maturing ahead of it. We need to lose the stigmas, live within our means, stop putting our military forces in three fourths of the nations on earth, and take care of one another.

Is Frank back? or an imposter? As Diana stated it depends on where you live. I live in the South, enough said. I even have a son in law who thinks Palin can save us.

where’s the “none of the above” choice?

I also vote for the “none of the above” catagory, also. So who should care how other people live their lives as long as it does not harm others? Living in North Carolina, I know there are many who take it upon themselves to decide what is a right way to live and their decisions are based on their religion. What I do not understand is how some folks believe they know what their God wants and thinks. How many have ever had an actual conversation exchanging and discussing ideas with their God?

I think it’s a tie between smokers and the overweight.