[Vision2020] Danger, Will Robinson! Insult! Insult!

[Joan Opyr]

Dear Visionaries:

Why is it that when anyone writes that he or she hates to say it, but they agree with Donovan, it is always because Donovan has chosen to castigate the rest of us for doing something of which he himself is grotesquely guilty, e.g., rudely personalizing a political discussion?  Perhaps the poster expects the rest of us to be more mature than Donovan?  If so, that's too bad.  This list, while informative, entertaining, and often downright fun, is also, like most other chat groups, high school all over again.  We blow off steam as we each see fit, and there's been plenty of steam to go around of late.  Post-Katrina, this place has been quite the pressure cooker.  

Do some of us sometimes go too far?  Of course.  But it's largely harmless, and I say (in general) hooray for the pressure valve.  Sometimes, it's post an insult or bust wide open.  You don't want to read about Donovan's butt or Dale Courtney's comb-over?  Then my advice is to delete.  My greatest concern isn't that I have to read about these things, but that I occasionally have to view them.

In the immortal words of Alice Roosevelt, if you don't have anything nice to say about someone, then come sit by me.

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.auntie-establishment.com

PS: To take this to the national level, I've discovered that the only effective counter-irritant to George W. Bush's perpetual smirk is a good, stiff vodka.  As we're in for three more years of that smirk, I fear that my liver will wind up the size of a backpack.  Any good vodka drink recipes, anyone?  I like kamikazes, but I long for some variation.