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Ulterior motive, huh? I guess my first question wasn't worded quite right. Perhaps it should have been "What provokes you to ask this question at a particular time?"
That's part of the confusion I get with this question; it seems to have an uncanny ability to show up at a bad time. It makes sense to be asked what you're thinking while staring at a wall of home theater options, thoughtfully stroking your chin. But just lying in bed at the end of a long day, blankly staring at nothing in particular, seems to pique most women's curiosity. Is there some look on a man's face that motivates the questioning? Does a man happen to be relaxing the mind at times and in situations that heighten a woman's curiosity? (I know I'm generalizing men and women here, maybe there's some other characteristic that more accurately distinguishes the askers from the askees.)

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And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.