Raise your hand if you've ever had to block a friend or family member on Facebook because they couldn't resist spamming your wall with political bullshit. These people have never seen a political image macro they didn't immediately share.

See, I've never been into politics, but as I get older, I find myself trying to pay more attention to it because it directly affects my children. I'm a part of a very large group who know enough about politics to distinguish the president from the guy who sold us our truck nuts -- but ask us to debate specific bills or name our state's senator, and we break down into a fetal position, clutching our knees and rocking back and forth until we pass out in a pool of our own urine. And where do we turn when we want to learn more about our government? Our sensible, rational peers on the Internet. I mean, if we can't trust our friends and family and Twitter followers to cut through the biased bullshit reporting of modern news, who can we trust?

And, after a solid year or so of listening to the well-thought-out views of the people on various social networking sites and message boards, I have decided to never talk or think about politics again. Why? Well ...