The fashion at Free Republic these days is too rush to post Twitter-like comments before anyone else. The results are often sentence fragments and incoherent paragraphs that completely miss the point of the article.
Free Republic was once noted for thoughtful mini essays that imparted both information and reasoned analysis. Discussions were actually undertaken rather than the random rattle of cannon fire. Sadly, those days are long gone and we are poorer for it.
It’s not just FR. As this article demonstrates, garbled headlines and writing are becoming the norm, even in once-prestigious publications.
When the movie ‘Idiocracy’ came out, it was so over-the-top I didn’t think it was funny. Now I think it was a sober description of what he’d seen by a time-traveler.
Hear! Hear! I surely miss some of the posters of yester year.