Looks to me as if for the next 12 days we have a chance to find out. Judy, in a fit of being (dare I say it?) REEEEEAL REEEEEAL STOOOOOOOOPID, has bounced herself off the forum next week. Lawson is probably still out next week as well. Shemp has been reserved in his posts and has contributed some interesting and valuable insights, so he hasn't been an issue in recent days. Everybody already ignores most of what Nabby and Willytex and Off say anyway. And Jim? Well, he's already established in the past that the enlightened can't count as high as 50, and if he keeps up his gay-baiting campaign, he'll be out next week as well.
So who does that leave? Well, it leaves folks who occasionally complain (and with some justification) that FFL is too confrontational and argumentative and in-your-face for them to participate in fully, or comfortably. Now's your chance, you lurkers. Go for it. If there are subjects you've always wanted to introduce but were afraid to because you knew they'd be turned into arguments within two replies, now's your oppor- tunity to give voice (or the sound of keyboard clicking) to them. Those who are already civil and restrained, like Curtis and Hugo and Marek and Ruth and Rick, will probably continue to respond the same way. Even inveterate assholes like myself might decide to lay low for this blessed period of time and allow this spiritual forum to actually be spiritual for a while. Might. I'm not promising anything, but I'll try. So what's out there to discuss that could be better discussed without someone trying their best to turn the discussions into arguments? And what's out there that doesn't *deserve* to be discussed that much during these next 12 days? Like has-been Hillary Clinton, or the other subjects that people have used to pull Judy's puppet strings and make her Just Go Away? Well, she's away. There is no *need* to post things for her to compulsively react to for the next 12 days. There is no need to mention her or her name or any of the others' names as well. We could give pulling their strings as much of a rest as their absence will give us. Or, it could be "business as usual." Your call.
