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...parents religious faith: "To say my parents were devout Catholics is like saying the sun runs a little hot...One of their earliest dates was Mass followed by a rosary. As a kid hearing my mother tell the story for the umpteenth time, I could only sit, mouth agape, in something approaching mortification, thinking, Oh my God, I have the squarest parents in the universe...
...began at a very young age. My entire family gathered almost every night for our favorite prime time shows, usually without any disagreement over what to watch. My parents sleep with the TV on in their room, so when I couldn’t fall asleep I used to sit in the dark at the foot of their bed staring at Richard Simmons infomercials until I dozed...
...when the sky is dark, no one wants to come out of his or her room. They’d rather sit inside and play NBA 2K9 than buck up and support the team...
...those days: "I probably served more as mayor than he did. He was always away making movies and everything." Engh also charges that Ventura was "two-faced." One of his initiatives as mayor was to stop cigarettes from being sold at convenience stores. "Yet," Engh says, "he would sit there at the meetings chewing snuff and spitting in the cup. I thought that was rude and disrespectful to the audience...
During the campaign, Ventura was quoted as musing aloud about legalizing prostitution. On the record, he denied favoring such a move but added, "Ladies and gentlemen, you cannot legislate stupidity. People are going to do stupid things. We cannot sit and every time someone does something stupid, make it a law and have the government come in, because if you do that, you're going to lose your freedoms." The macho former wrestler had this to say about why he favored gay rights: "Love is bigger than government...