Al Krigman wrote:
Since the formation of the sweetbarkingcheese.com list, we've been
blessed by the absence of pejoratives such as "ranting" to describe
measured discussions involving differences of opinion. (Other than
when the sweetbarkingcheesers have deliberately tried to trash the
purple list and bait its denizens.)
Elliot M. Stern wrote:
Yet we are still plagued by sneering references to
sweetbarkingcheese.com list!
Frank Carroll wrote:
And I hope we continue to be.
WE'RE HERE! WE SNEER!! GET USED TO IT!!!
Frankus
Sleek. Edgy. Infinitely flexible.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think it is more indicative of the biology of aging, wherein older
males - like you three, regardless of their political persuasions, tend
to get cranky and persnickety as the summer doldrums linger.
That is not to suggest sweetbarfingcheese doesn't have a few cranky
self-envisioned young bucks.
I think al (and earlier, sharrieff) gets it right, about a
band of folks who tried to trash this list, with their
deliberately inflammatory posts and steady, gratuitous
rudeness (not mentioning any names). it brought about all
kinds of reactions, from people who tried to fight fire with
fire by flinging it right back in the same style (not
mentioning names), to people wringing their hands and
lecturing (still not mentioning names), to people just
ignoring it or running away from it (no names) -- but
everyone was affected by it. I see that now -- now that it's
over, now that they're gone.
I think it's so cool that the list is so much more normal
now, even when the topics are uncomfortable or contentious.
for a few weeks now it's been possible to have discussions
-- not without the occasional jab or dig, of course, but
certainly without the sustained extremist mudslinging and
namecalling and doorslamming.
ah.
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these people are. Ray has admitted being
connected to this forger." -- Tony West
"Ray's falsehoods are more sophisticated,
more believable" -- Tony West
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