“I’d love to have a picture with Palin, just to make half my friends jealous and make half my friends vomit. “
Sounds like you need to rethink half of your friend list.
I’d hate to be in ideological sync with all my friends. It’d be worse than living in a vacuum. Too many people I know live in communities that might as well be bubble worlds where “everyone” thinks this or “knows” that. ick.