1. Do your families have similar political leanings? If not, does that ever cause a ruckus with your spouse/brother/mother-in-law?

2. Regarding the separation of fiscal vs. social conservatism, do you believe these issues are inextricably linked or can we focus on one without the other?

3. I have the student membership, so technically I'm a member but I still get the guilt trip from Rob! I really appreciate Ricochet's outreach to students, has that been as fruitful as anticipated?

Talking to fellow grad students and post-docs, people criticize the OWS crowd for disorganization, but not for overall message of "Rich are getting richer, poor are getting poorer, and it's WALL STREET'S FAULT." Not exactly heartening when people with PhDs in neuroscience (but maybe that's a causative factor?) want to force companies to make jobs and increase government regulation.

And yes, doing things the right way -- saving money, waiting to be debt-free to start a family -- gets frustrating when so many peers don't think twice about taking government money (food stamps, state insurance, "free" birth control from Planned Parenthood, government subsidized private school...).