well now we know, overexamination sucks. or is this just plain examination.

"He was Republican because his father before him was a Republican and because this country was Republican. It never occured to him to be otherwise. And, as in the case of his politics and his religion, he had borrowed all his notions of what was right and wrong from those about him. A single, serious intelligent or rightly informing book had never been read had never been read by any member of this family -- not one. But they were nevertheless excellent, as conventions, morals and religions go -- honest, upright, God-fearing and respectable."

"An American Tragedy"
Theodore Dreiser

Now, this is not, by any stretch of the imagination, 100 percent true of my family and life, but it still strikes home.
Damn.