Dudes, don't be unkind to each other. You still have the evil sparrabethers to bind you, remember that. ;-)
Seriously, for both of you: I think everybody could stand to be better self-educated. Including me. Including both of you, and everyone else here. Because really, the day anyone stops learning, they might as well settle into their grave and start the dirt nap. (My mother's 57 years old and voted Republican her entire life until 2004 - what turned her against the neocon contingent initially were all the soldiers who died in a war she came to see as unjustified and unwinnable. She listened to the news a little each day and read a few things here and there - mainly newspapers or magazines, I don't think any books, since she's not a big book person - and began questioning what was going on in other parts of the government. This is a woman I NEVER thought would change her mind about politics, for real.)
BUT - and there is always one - I don't want to see friends feeling personally jumped on in my journal, either, or jumping. I know neither of you thinks the other is stupid or mean. Hell, sometimes I forget not everybody is as armor-plated as I am (which comes chiefly from my job ... although I think working in public utilities would give one the chance to be bitched at a lot for things they have no control over, either *G*).
Play nice, guys. And don't take debating personally. As Jack pointed out in AWE at allies temporarily smashing bottles over each other's heads and shooting one another, "This is politics."
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Seriously, for both of you: I think everybody could stand to be better self-educated. Including me. Including both of you, and everyone else here. Because really, the day anyone stops learning, they might as well settle into their grave and start the dirt nap. (My mother's 57 years old and voted Republican her entire life until 2004 - what turned her against the neocon contingent initially were all the soldiers who died in a war she came to see as unjustified and unwinnable. She listened to the news a little each day and read a few things here and there - mainly newspapers or magazines, I don't think any books, since she's not a big book person - and began questioning what was going on in other parts of the government. This is a woman I NEVER thought would change her mind about politics, for real.)
BUT - and there is always one - I don't want to see friends feeling personally jumped on in my journal, either, or jumping. I know neither of you thinks the other is stupid or mean. Hell, sometimes I forget not everybody is as armor-plated as I am (which comes chiefly from my job ... although I think working in public utilities would give one the chance to be bitched at a lot for things they have no control over, either *G*).
Play nice, guys. And don't take debating personally. As Jack pointed out in AWE at allies temporarily smashing bottles over each other's heads and shooting one another, "This is politics."