Fwiw, Rousseau was a scumbag-bum (technical jargon) and I would never belong to a club that would have someone like him as a member–but then, I’m no Groucho Marx. </p>
<p>If Rousseau’s in, I’m out; a seat change many here would no doubt happily facilitate and though it may appear that I am tempting fate, remember the pervy old cheatin-liar is dead, gone and not coming back as anything other than the tired specter of the progressive imagination. </p>
<p>Cheers,
I agree…I was perhaps being to modest when speaking of my friends here on cc–Marite included…</p>
<p>…along with some other personal favorites that are clearly too obvious to mention (you included)–even some of the trigger-happy ‘bad guys.’</p>
<p>Y’know, I’m kinda glad that people disagree with me. Maybe I’m jaded from too many forums. Maybe I just don’t log into the right threads. But my experience, by and large, has been that we all just try to show off on the intarwebs, and that the anonymity lends itself to a certain douchebaggery (technical jargon ;)) that you don’t get in person.</p>
<p>But really, step back for a moment and consider the immodesty rampant on these discussions, and I think not even rose-colored lenses can mask the ugly glow.</p>
<p>That’s another reason some of us avoid the political threads. People just seem to be nicer elsewhere, and more like the kind of people I’d actually like to sit and have a cuppa tea with in person. Even if they’re the same people. ;)</p>
<p>Ahhhh, UCLA, I shan’t hijack this thread into another direction altogether by suggesting that California, (home to two siblings and three nieces), is a world unto itself when it comes to a pervasive culture of one-upmanship. However, I can assure you that I do not read and post on CC political threads to ‘show off’. Number one, I am not fascile enough to do so, but truly, mostly I log in to learn, discuss or share something that may be of interest to others. </p>
<p>Not that I mind a bit of verbal balderdash. It’s fun to read.</p>
<p>*mootie, I wish you’d ignore the lapses in manners and post a few thoughts. I’d enjoy reading your perspective.</p>
<p>I will confess to loving verbal volleyball, which is one reason I haven’t ditched the political threads completely. It’s a good workout, and yes, you do have to be in fairly decent shape to play.</p>
<p>Thank you! But I owe it all to you!–really. I confess to having drafted something and then erased it all on the strength of the Pledge. May we always be so strong…</p>
<p>I came back to this thread after browsing through the “What did they know” thread. I can’t tell if these threads are just intended as comic diversion by the posters, or if they are serious. Either way, I am beginning to find them more and more troubling. This is a college site. I believe that most of us hope that we have raised, or are raising, young adults who are rational, respectful, and thoughtful and capable of civilized debate. Yet the adults on these threads are the models of the opposite traits. A terrible example to be setting.</p>
<p>Comic diversion for me. The strings to most of the posters are getting too easy to pull. I will also add that college is meant to explore and not limit thought.</p>
<p>Have you had your prunes today? Keeping things bottled up internally is not good for you. Free movements relieve a lot of tensions, so said a bossman.</p>
<p>Sinners Alley is nice but too feminine and much of the conversation is mommy talk that I don’t understand.</p>
<p>I took the pledge about half way through the current Foley thread, and have avoided the “What did they know when” thread completely. I prefer SA and the music threads. Get enough politics elsewhere.</p>
<p>My post this morning in the Streisand thread was NOT a political post, since the topic had not yet degenerated into Clinton-Blaming and Bush-Bashing… but it probably will.</p>
<p>" Sinners Alley is nice but too feminine and much of the conversation is mommy talk that I don’t understand."</p>
<p>You can always drive your Harley through the plate-glass window if you want to shake things up in SA, Dig. Actually, I occasionally lurk there just to see what the nice moms are thinking, but I would never disturb that sanctuary, which is actually fun and interesting. There is a lot of niceness here at CC that goes unnoticed due to our food fights.</p>
<p>Yeah, at Sinner’s Alley by the time we get mad we are all too intoxicated to do anything other than slump under the table. However, SBMom DID go to Burning Man and we never DID find out exactly what happened when she came back:). Even guys like Burning Man…especially the part where something explodes.</p>