[bobman0330]

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1. Have you always been politically conservative? If not, what sort of things influenced you in that direction?

2. All time favorite Transformer?

3. Dish you are most skilled at cooking to date?

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1. Yes. My formative political experience was talk radio, which my mom listened to a lot driving me and my siblings to school. My parents are both fairly moderate, and of opposite political persuasions, so I also got a lot of variety. In high school and college, most of my friends were really liberal, which perversely drove me to being more conservative than I normally am, just because it's easier to see the flaws in/be repulsed by extreme arguments than moderate ones. Since finishing undergrad and going to law school, I've gotten more moderate.

2. As a child, I remember having the toys of Soundwave and the other cassette Decepticons, so I'm going to go with them.

3. Depends how you mean. The dish I make most often and am most adept at making is probably sauteed chicken breast. The dish I make that probably tastes best is grilled brined pork chops. The dish I consider my greatest accomplishment was one I made (w/ no recipe) consisting of sauteed scallops in a cream sauce (skim milk + parmesan) with cracked peppercorns and peas over linguine. (This last dish, which I've christened Scallops à Robert, might have won more categories, but last time I made it, the sauce didn't really thicken and I ended up with noodle soup.)