The Town Square

Tantrums. Alarums. Miscommunications. Nurtured hurts.

MHW, I've been waiting for you to weigh in. I couldn't say it as long as you hadn't, you have more right to it than I, but let me add a "Yeah, like he said".

Freedom of expression is paramount. And it is here. There are times when we will pop off, and that's human nature. The webmasters obviously value this, otherwise there would be fire and brimstone raining down about now. No one can force you to play footsie or be PC with or about anyone. Folks are free.... to leave, stay, take a hiatus, lurk, or just turn the damn thing off and go fishing.

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Mara, you are right too. Liberty isn't license. "An armed society is a polite society" my arse, and the corrolary also, which would be that in a space where we all have something we want and which we may value, no one should start tossing WP grenades. Not even the good guys.

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I feel that we can argue but avoid  fights; grinding it in is "poor form", and if it gets bad enough we can lose priviliges (yes, priviliges, not rights, the content is free but the infrastructure and administration of something like this takes money and a lot of effort) to use this space as we have, and leave ourselves open to retaliation by others. You want to be consistently obnoxious in a public house, the alternative is you sit there alone, and/or the owner shuts down. Everyone has to share the pub.

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Having said that, I am not sorry I blew up last night, but it smacked of hypocrisy, and I hope that didn't obscure my point. (I'm not saying I am not a hypocrite, but what I just wrote is more in keeping with the necessity). There are folks here with greater and lesser emotional toughness and emotional involvement than others, and even though not mandatory, it behooves the tough to use appropriate emotional force. ("Only the noble feel 'nobless oblige' "). Let me know when I trespass, a simple "Yo, Harebrain !" will suffice and be taken in good spirits. Let's all try for that.

Y'll

1. Anyone out there ever live out of grocery cart? Seriously, anyone a former street person? I am curious about what you select to survive when you have limited transport and the constant threat of theft.

I'll start a blog. Damn me, I'll intentionally start a short-lived blog. Unlkess it takes off......(sneaky happy face emoticon)

http://www.bloggingnetwork.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/mouse_roars/

I guess it is inevitable that interaction will try to stay proximate to action (i.e., people crowding comments after a blog which is not neccessarily interactive in nature).

And inevitably there are people who have to keep ratcheting up their level of vitriol, sometimes just dissing, then revving it up. Or collecting little green stamps of injury and then pasting them into their little albumn of owies, posting it, and then diveboarding off it into a rant.

First off, wear this shoe if it fits. But....

Second, the rule of thumb I observe is that if an exchange is taking more than two salvoes and does not concern the blog anymore other than to slander the writer EVEN IN JEST , you are running the risk of being a boorish lout. Take it from a past master. Move it to the coffee bar or Community Comments.Get a room. Pies at fifteen feet at Marie Calendar's parking lot. But you hurt the infrastructure when you just stir it up.

THIRD: CHALLENGE: You wanna make a crack, make a crack, then get out of the blogs. Someone taks a crack at you and it isn't a critique, blow it off. If they bother you enough, complain to the webmasters. IF they harass you with emails, tell the webmasters and, if that fails, contact your ISP.

And with the first point above firmly in mind, if you want to pick on somebody, pick someone your own size or someone who thinks you're funny, you dunce!

 The Maj

Hello bloggers.  I'm new to this neck-of-the-woods.  I have been doing my blogging on my xanga site but I thought I would check out this territory for a while and see what is going on here.  Anything exciting?  Any self-made critics or natural-born cynics like me?

I usually blog each day.  I believe it is an addiction, but so far an addiction I enjoy.  I hope it stays enjoyable.

Oh well, not a long post here.  I just wanted to say 'hello' and I will be posting regularly.  I hope you stop by and leave a comment or two. 

Have a good one, gang.

boneless skinless chicken thighs sauted whole with a tsp flour, 1/3 tsp season salt, cumin, a can of green chilies; sweet corn; baked potatoes with real margerine/salt/pepper; red and green (tomatillo) salsa on the side, and a lttle green salsa and lemon juice on the chicken as it finished.

MMMMUWAH!

CHOCOLATE COVERED ALMONDS!!!

Just keep typing and typing and typing.

Seriously. Single post blogs with killer titles don't just usurp time, they hog hits. (You steenking Hithoggers, you!).

I think BN ought to run up the cost of mass blogging to prevent this 'blamming" (blog spamming). But for those of us who prefer to read and post in a less linear fashion than I have possibly pioneered (oi vey), maybe a mini home page sort of deal where you click on  an poster, and you see a list of their own categories, then you can select from those. Or wold we be reinventing the webpage? I don't think so, as there is the inimitable kaffeehaus and hte other features.