I mean… Marvin is highly entertaining.

But no, I wouldn’t want him actually around me.

Fuck! How did I miss the most unhelpful option?

And now I’m here to fight with both of you, not about what you’re arguing about, but I’m going to police your tone and call you both stupid because you didn’t argue in the arbitrary fashion I’ve determined is “correct!”

This is the least helpful contribution I can make, while simultaneously attacking you both!

Medium answer: you bet.

I told a story about how one of the only time I stood up to my awful mother was about this very thing.

I spent time complaining about Bush, and my mother would always whine that you “have” to support the president.

The minute Obama won, she came to me parroting some sort of Fox nonsense, and I engaged her for a while before realizing, “You have to support the president!” She pointed out that I didn’t blindly support Bush, and I answered that I believe it’s the job of all citizens to question their government (as I openly criticized Obama many times), but she believed you have to “support the president,” so when she didn’t, she was a hypocrite.

One of the few times I pushed back, and one of the few times she was actually silenced by logic. A memory I hold dear.

She wouldn’t let the fisherman look in her wooden box, so they came up with this while story about her being a foreign princess, married for convenience, and took an illicit lover, so they killed her lover and put his head in the box and set her to sea.

That is an insane amount of bananas details for “she has a box and won’t let us see what’s inside.”