Blahness

How can I say anything good about my family when they have exalted Stupid Cousin Laurie way beyond her level of competence? There she is blabbering about astrological signs and horoscope predictions and I am expected to respond to that nonsense. Did Laurie's mother not teach her anything about the evils of reading the horoscope in the newspaper? Always avert your eyes away from that garbage to avoid even the suggestion of evil. Just reading that stuff, even as a joke could put wrong ideas in your mind and you might even act it out just to make it mean something, even though it didn't really mean anything. If you really must do the crossword puzzle you could always fold the paper back so that you don't have to look at the horoscope or else you could go to the grocery store and buy a magazine dedicated solely to puzzles. Preferring not to look like a clone of great-grandmother, this being the 21st century, I personally would choose the "Logic Problems" magazine, preferably the Dell version, which is so much better. They didn't have "Logic Problems" magazine back in the olden days, I suppose, but it is a good idea not to forget how to think.