<p>what bad verse?</p>
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<p>In boredom much danger;
so sad to see
that what her world needs now…
is anger, sweet anger.</p>
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<p>FS,
boredom? Try again. You are being needlessly obtuse.</p>
<p>From lunacy to flights of fancy,
This thread is going from verse to worse. :(</p>
<p>FS was being Bacharachian, sweet love, twisting “what the world needs now” because being blunt, especially bluntly hateful, is basically boring,…</p>
<p>“FS,
boredom? Try again. You are being needlessly obtuse.”</p>
<p>Not to mention bad-mannered. Although I am an infrequent poster, I have read many of your posts over time, FS. Your posts on this board a board intended for parents consistently drip with derision for anyone who does not embrace your particular worldview. Please understand that Im not suggesting you must respect your elders. Respect, of course, has to be earned. What I am suggesting is that in general, other people even anonymous posters on a message board deserve to be addressed with a modicum of civility.</p>
<p>oh my goodness!!!</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the article didn’t really talk about the importance of blogs - they have served as a means to holding the Corporate news organizations to account. Good blogs sometimes go deeper on fact and allow ordinary citizens a voice and a means to be heard.</p>
<p>They didn’t even mention Josh Marshall who is considered to run one of the best blog sites - factual and fair and with nary an F word.</p>
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<p>Was that intentionally or accidentally beautiful?</p>
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Nothin’ wrong with this suggestion, IMHO. Not only do I unwaveringly and unapologetically expect this from my kids, but I practice it myself when I am dealing with people older than I.</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>Mr. or Ms. WJB,</p>
<p>Please.</p>
<p>In what way was my post more derisive of Maryscott OConnor than any other?</p>
<p>The subject of the article in the OP, Maryscott O’Connor, is quite happy to be angry she says as much herself. I applaud her for her candor; a rare commodity, to be sure. Perhaps, as is often the case, she is otherwise bored with her life and her anger gets her mojo cranking: a pick-me-up!</p>
<p>Johnny Rotten, of the Sex Pistols, once triumphantly proclaimed: Anger is an energy. Indeed it is.</p>
<p>I was not afraid of personally insulting Ms OConnor, because I did not suppose that she posts on cc though having some knowledge of the tenor of some who do post, I suppose it is not impossible. </p>
<p>Is it too much for an 18 year old to critique a person already critiqued nationally in the Washington Post? </p>
<p>How old do you have to be to join in? At 18, I am no parent but I am an adult (barely), as are many other frequent and light-hearted posters here.</p>
<p>And really, I was writing verse is there no artistic license afforded to aspiring 18 year old lyricists amongst your rather taciturn set?</p>
<p>Nice melody Beruah is right though; I stole it from Burt Bacharach, or is it Hal David. Back in the-day it was about love sweet love you outta be old enough to know that.</p>
<p>Its all good. </p>
<p>MR. Wjb,
a smile is just a frown turned upside down
Dont worry be happy
Cant we just all get along
Id like to teach the world to sing
[and most poignantly], UP WITH PEOPLE
you silly.</p>
<p>.</p>
<p>Interesting how, in the same thread, we can applaud or support the language and attitude of the person described in the original article and find the four lines posted by FS as lacking respect towards elders. </p>
<p>This is a recurring theme on College Confidential, but it obvious that the call for respect did not find much of a basis in THIS thread. </p>
<p>This said I’ll stick to my bad verse and work on the relation between lunacy, nom de plume and my parody of the lullaby. So much for a lazy afternoon in the terrace of the Caf</p>
<p>Please reread my post. I’m not demanding respect or support for Maryscott O’Connor – or anyone else. It’s derision directed against other posters on CC that I decry. (How’d you like THAT alliteration?) And if you don’t see the jeering tone of many of your own posts, Ms. FS, including the one you just addressed to me, there’s nothing I can say that will help you see it.</p>
<p>I think her verse was obtuse -applying to anyone who might be angry. I could dig up a particularly scathing comment FS made towards women of a different generation, but alas her bias and judgement is quite obvious even within this thread:</p>
<p>" Perhaps, as is often the case, she is otherwise bored with her life and her anger gets her mojo cranking: a pick-me-up!"</p>
<p>FS assumes that Mary Scott O’Connor is otherwise bored with her life. I’m not sure where this judgement comes from but I find it disconcerting and naive for someone so young. I don’t care for Mary Scott O’Connor’s writing but I believe she has a cause born out of passion and her own experience with war - her father was killed in the Viet Nam War before she was even born.</p>
<p>Anger can be a creative energy used to get individuals and groups out of negative situations.</p>
<p>And isn’t this thread a wonderful example of what the Right loves to do. Point out the weakness of the powerless opponent and keep them occupied with defending themselves. It’s so much more effective than actually solving a silly little problem like a war or a budget, don’t you think?</p>
<p>Regarding Maryscott OConnor, in post #22 I wrote:</p>
<p>In boredom much danger;
so sad to see
that what her world needs now…
is anger, sweet anger.</p>
<p>Just trying to keep it real:
reading the above posts by Liz and Wjb, one might come to believe a Id called for generational insurrection or assassination. </p>
<p>It was a ditty, in keeping with the ditties in posts #12, 13, 14, 15, 16 ,17 ,18 (mine was #22).</p>
<p>They were fun The post by Liz, being acerbic, broke the playful mood. </p>
<p>Regarding Ms O’Connor’s anger, I defer to an opinion of someone so much older than me that he is now dead.
I refer you to T. S. Elliot:</p>
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<p>FS:
Instead of quoting T.S.Elliot, it may be better if you actually <em>read</em> what he said, and took his words to heart.</p>
<p>oh my, sorry to break the playful mood with reality…I’m quite good at that especially when the playful mood is at someone else’s expense.</p>
<p>My analysis stands FS - I don’t think you understand anger born of passion or belief. You would have missed the signs of many a past revolution.</p>
<p>OD, Liz, Wjb, et al,</p>
<p>I have heard the nit-picky critiques from your side of the dial, but until I hear the same from the other side (which I havent) I will consider this nothing more than a partisan rhetorical tacticbelieve it or not, there have been more than a few political liberals who have written that they enjoy my posts even though they disagree with my views (I wont mention their names, but they know who they aredont want to get them black-balled on liberal cc).</p>
<p>There was a thread a while back on a book review Id written on Shakespeare (published in DR)
the leeward side of the political spectrum was all over that one too. I have been warned that my age (18) combined with my gender (female) dictates I should be more respectful of senior-liberals (you do not hear these things said to the boys in these rollicking quarters, as you know), and perhaps I should remember my place. Let me think about it and get back to you.
;)</p>
<p>FountainSiren being arrogant, obtuse, and needlessly derisive?</p>
<p>This is almost as unheard of as me being sarcastic, crass, and brazen. My goodness, what is this forum coming to?</p>