One should try to never ignore common sense...

So...common sense...hell just general above half-wit intelligence informs us that if we want peace in our lives...to avoid certain subjects with family.  Now, I was sitting down to a nice little business lunch with some family (yes, I work with family...I already know I broke the first rule :P).  I'm not even sure how it got started...but the debate went from politics to religion to social degradation. Now, normally…I know better…I just keep my trap shut and either switch the conversation or stick my nose in a book. Today…the voices wouldn’t let me behave. I’m not going to go into details or my personal beliefs on any of these subjects other then to say I try to take the wide view approach to almost all things in life…because of one main reason…I don’t know everything. Hell, most days I will admit to not knowing anything. Does this mean I’m stupid…no. It means I’d like to think myself intelligent enough to realize there is almost always another side to things and not to shut things out. So back to the story at hand…got into this huge debate with the family over the no-no subjects that lasted nearly 2 hours. So not only did I receive the evil eye, a few muttered curses and one kick to the shin…okay…I made a sarcastic remark about Catholics so I probably deserved the kick, but I have to work late tonight now as well. In my defense…I was raised Catholic so don’t think I was trying to hate on the religion. I will make jokes almost about anything…usually when I know it will get me in trouble anyways just to try and bait people. So anyway…I’m bummed I have to work late.