Overheard Starbuck

"She assumed I had nothing against killing. Executions, war, collateral damage--'They know what they're doing'. --She kept on saying 'it's a job, it's nothing personal' until I wanted to strangle her."
---"She pushed your buttons. ... She's never said more than two words to me."
"Are you saying she was sizing me up?"
---"Tough talk can be a turn-on; compassionate convictions never. --Well maybe for the abused, but there's fewer violent fathers every year."
"So that was republican foreplay?"
---"You wimp; you lose."