I'm sure you're a high class hoor, Jesse. Nothing but the best for (or from) our Cowgirl.
Where's my mother? I want my mother! She's at the doctor having her infusion hardware taken out. But I want to speak to her.
Chatted with my sister again. She's still a wreck. But we had an interesting conversation where I clarified my distinction between "conspiracy theorists" and "skeptics". I have a lot of baggage around the terms conspiracy theory and theorists, all including the way of belief, and less about what they believe. That I don't attach to skeptics.
So if someone I think is a skeptic thinks there's a cure for cancer that's being hidden by big Pharma, I'm more likely to hear them out, but if I say "conspiracy theory about a cure for cancer" it means I've already written it off.
Sis doesn't like that. She doesn't want to demean questioning of the dominant power structure with the dismissiveness inherent in conspiracy theory, but to me I'm separating critical thinkers from the paranoid and gullible.
She points out that it might have taken conspiracy theorists to unearth Tuskegee, but I'm trying to explain that it was skeptics and suspicious people and investigative people. Conspiracy theorists are the sort that think sending a petition to the White House about aliens means anything, and then will immediate write off the response to the petition anyway, even though it might have been their petition in the first place.
Am I semanticing it up?