Is there a polite way to tell my coworkers

that I don't appreciate forwards that have religious or patriotic content? Invariably it's all "God" this or "The Lord" that. And I just can't handle anything to do with photos of 9/11 anymore. I never could. I'm more proud to have been born in New York than "proud to be an American". I will always be a New Yorker. I have not become a Bostonian and I don't think I'll become - what do they call people from Los Angeles?

Anyway, someone sent out an email with the above stuff in it and it seemed like he was waiting for me to look at it and react and I just couldn't because it would not have come out nice.

Someone else a few weeks ago asked me if I believed in Buddha but still went to church. He's a coworker from China who told me about a nearby Buddhist center. I told him I don't go to church. I think I had to tell him twice.

I can't very well start sending people witchy forwards now can I? They'd think it was strange, right??!!!

AAAARRRGGHHH!

What possessed me? (This is a warning)

I have to rewrite this. grr.

I went here:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/06/12/pearl/index_np.html
and remembered that The Boston Phoenix has a link to the video of Daniel Pearl's murder.

Maybe I was thinking:
I support the first amendement.
I've been on the jury for a murder trial.

So, I went to see the video. I don't have a sound card on my computer at work. That's probably a good thing.

Even though I've scene murder scene and autopsy photos, this video still affected me.

Now I am going to eat popcorn, drink wine and watch brain candy on t.v. Hopefully there won't be any nightmares tonight.