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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
I'm not responding to the expected madness this post will generate. They're not worth my time. I have no desire, like these desperate idiots do to hurl direct insults 24 hours a day. This is not my life. I post my general feelings and then get stomped on like a fire in Bill Clinton's pants or something.

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Originally posted by deadlockvictim:

well one last thing - if by some strange twist of fate we should ever happen to meet in person and you call me a "limp wristed, despicable obtuse liberal cocksucking jerkoff" to my face... i will pound your sorry ass into the ground...k?

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Nonetheless, I see no benefit to responding in the same way.

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I believe tit for tat is a better approach anyway. So, what to do - don't start, but reply in kind. Take great pains to also point out what they are doing. And take pride in making the right enemies.

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Originally posted by SignyM:
Peeps like Jong, Rapo, Geezer, and Finn are aren't thinking, they're reacting. ("Hero" is a dyed-in-the-wool opportunist.) Mostly out of fear.

I don't want to make enemies, I want peeps to think about the topic they're reacting to. You know Fear is the mind-killer? It doesn't mean just panic, any level of fear (even discomfort about a topic) slows down thinking. Piling on more motion doesn't help.


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Let's party like its 1929.

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Originally posted by out2theblack:
Like it or not , we're all in this together...

I'm upping my standards , so , Up Yours !

I ran across an ad for a book that looks interesting...

Here's a description , and links to audio and video about it :

"...Levees break in New Orleans. Iraq descends into chaos. The housing market teeters on the brink of collapse. Americans of all political stripes are heading into the 2008 election with the sense that something has gone terribly wrong with American politics. But what exactly? Democrats blame Republicans and Republicans blame Democrats. Greedy corporate executives, rogue journalists, faulty voting machines, irresponsible defense contractors—we blame them, too. The only thing everyone seems to agree on, in fact, is that the American people are entirely blameless.

In Just How Stupid Are We?, best-selling historian and renowned myth-buster Rick Shenkman takes aim at our great national piety: the wisdom of the American people. The hard truth is that American democracy is more direct than ever-

...but voters are misusing, abusing, and abdicating their political power. Americans are paying less and less attention to politics at a time when they need to pay much more: Television has dumbed politics down to the basest possible level, while the real workings of politics have become vastly more complicated. Shenkman offers concrete proposals for reforming our institutions-the government, the media, civic organizations, political parties-to make them work better for the American people. But first, Shenkman argues, we must reform ourselves."

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thoughtful and insightful

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