people with manners. it's a lost art, really. some folks think that being polite and respectful is a weakness. i think it shows major strength in your character. hello, you can be polite without being a pushover. also like to meet anyone who can figure me out, or would like to die trying! and people who don't take themselves seriously. are you politically correct? move to the BACK of the line! nothing works my nerves more ... except maybe drama queens. also, i have friends who occasionally do drugs, and they are free to do what they want, but they will be my friends only. if you want to be more than my friend, drugs are grounds for immediate disqualification. sorry to get all "nancy reagan" on you, but those are things that i will not tolerate from a significant other. my list of friends is quite diverse, and i love meeting all sorts of people, especially the wilder ones who can bring out my crazy side. it's brewing just beneath the surface. trust me.i'd also like to meet bill maher. we don't agree on everything, but he has great ideas about how to fix the things that are wrong with our country, and the following, slightly dated excerpt is from an episode of "real time with bill maher" (full credit goes to bill maher and h.b.o.) ... new rule: if you believe you need to take all the pills the pharmaceutical industry says you do, then you're already on drugs. yes, it's that time in the campaign when all the candidates are presenting their healthcare proposals. hillary's covers children's teeth; edwards has one that includes maintaining gorgeous, shiny hair; and barack obama's involves going on "oprah" and everyone gets a gastric bypass. but none of the plans address the real problem: we won't stop being sick until we stop making ourselves sick. because there is a point where even the most universal government health program can't help you. they can't outlaw unhealthy food or alcohol or cigarettes; just pot, sadly. because, you see, the government isn't your nanny. they're your dealer, and they subsidize illness in america. they have to; there's too much money in it. you see, there's no money in helping people. and there's no money in dead people. the money's in the middle: people who are alive, sort of, but with one or more chronic conditions that put them in need of celebrex or nasonex or valtrex or lunesta. fifty years ago, children didn't even get type-two diabetes. now, it's an emerging epidemic. as are a long list of ailments which used to be rare and have now been mainstreamed: things like asthma and autism and acid reflux and arthritis, allergies, adult acne, attention-deficit disorder, and that's just the a's! doesn't anybody wonder why we live with all this illness? i'll tell you why. at the l.a. county fair last week, they were serving something called fried coke. now my first thought was, gosh, what a waste of a perfectly good eight-ball. but no, they actually pour the coca-cola syrup into a deep-frier, then put it in a cup and top it with sugar and whipped cream and a cherry, because, you know, fruit is good for you. would it really be that much more unhealthy to get molested by one of the carnies? in hillary clinton's health plan, the words "nutrition" and "exercise" appear once; the word "drugs," 14 times. just as the pharmaceutical companies want. you know, their ad weasels love to say, "when diet and exercise fail ..." well, diet and exercise don't fail. a fact brought home last week by a new duke university study that showed exercise -- yes, exercise -- is just as effective a cure for depression, as paxil and zoloft. so ask your doctor if getting off your ass is right for you! you know, if republicans can sell the idea of preemptive war, democrats have to at least get us interested in the idea of preventive medicine. someone has to stand up and say that the answer isn't another pill. the answer is spinach. ok, not spinach. turns out that crap will kill you, but you know what i mean!