Not talking shop

I've spent a lot of time talking about the Maggie Gyllenhaal debacle over the past two days, specifically how we live in a political climate where to question anything our government does is to be labeled un-American. I'm not going to get into it here, because this is not a political place. It's a shiny, happy place. And now, to commence with the shiny and the happy, the tail end of an IM with Zach:

Me: You know, we've never talked politics before.

Zach: I know. Is it good or bad?

Me: Good. But odd that we never did it when we spent 8 hours a day in a newsroom together.

Zach: I was too busy checking out your legs and thinking dirty thoughts to talk politics.