Scotto's Wall Scrawls

My grandmother certainly belived in psychic powers, and sometimes consulted fortune tellers. My mother always disapproved of them. She has no explanation for why she believes certain things so adamantly. She simply knows that John Wayne was gay, that Bill Clinton did not have sexual relations with that woman, that Dan Quayle was tricked into mispelling "potato," that one person accused of a crime is guilty and another innocent,and all the evidence in the world will not sway her. While my grandmother would have attributed her own knowledge of such things to her psychic ability, my mother simply "knows" these things to be so, and assumes that all right thinking people will agree with her, evidence and reason be damned. In short, Mom is a wacko, and that is the one thing she doesn't know, even though everyone else in the world does. I'm accustomed to it, myself, but it's fun to watch the reactions of other people when she spouts one of her odd beliefs to them. It annoyed me when I was a kid, but now I find it quite entertaining.