Stranger nailed it to the wall and he did it with the big boy hammer.
Somebody had to say it.
Things have gotten downright pathetic around here with all of the name calling and feces tossing.
DU is STILL my favorite place on the web, and my #1 destination when I sit down in front of any computer.
But someone had to administer a slap up the side of our collective heads to maybe wake a few of us up.
None of us can honestly say that things are not a little different here in our little community.
I've seen people say that it's never been this bad.
The deliberate and sometimes vicious attempts to piss people off are at an all time high.
Check this out...
A great read:
http://www.blah3.com/article.php?story=20071231170602419WHY I HATE THE PRIMARIES
The primary season (at least on the Republican side) has been enormously entertaining, as we got to watch the GOP's wannabes try to be more pious than all the rest, often while simultaneously explaining why they're adulterous, corrupt, flip-flopping panderers with more ambition than integrity. I gotta say that watching the other side of the aisle engage in the equivalent of a hair-pulling contest for the past six months has been jolly fun.
On the Democratic side, not so much.
I logged on to Democratic Underground last night, and it seems that every other poster has put up a post that is irrefutable proof that Hillary is Evil or john Edwards is a Hypocrite or Obama is a Lightweight Who Isn't Ready For Higher Office. Each one of these posts, of course, draws the supporters of whoever is being trashed, and the whole thing devolves into pissing matches that deteriorate further and further into Screech-ville until the moderators are forced to lock the thread. Then the whole thing starts over again.
And even on more supposedly level-headed blogs like MyDD, the tenor of the posts have taken on that of a food-fight (albeit with far fewer uses of the word 'Fuck'). Jerome or whoever is posting puts up a long-winded, scholarly-sounding post that when stripped of the multi-syllabic vocabulary and literary references boils down to either Hillary Is Evil or John Edwards is a Hypocrite or Obama is a Lightweight Who Isn't Ready For Higher Office (although they tend to lay off of hillary, because - and I see this on a number of comment sigs - 'Hillary's Their Girl!). The long-winded, scholarly-sounding comments to each post drone on and on, with the commenters veiling their contempt for one another behind more phony language than a Republican congressman referring to a Democratic congressman as 'my esteemed colleague and long-time friend.'
You know they all want to tell each other to go fuck themselves, but of course on big-time money-making blogs like MyDD, that's just not done. Why, that would be like wearing white after Labor Day! And believe me, on blogs like that one, nobody wants to be considered uncouth or rude, because that would ruin the utter civility and seriousness of it all.
Hit the link and read the rest.
Also, check out the stock market graph on the main page.
If we can't win when we have powerful information like this little nugget, we don't deserve to win.