By the way, thread 3 in the other conservative web-site is "locked," but do not panic.
The wise and esteemed moderators do that once in a while, so they can go back to the top and clean the garbage, after which it is unlocked.
You know, I am now totally confused by the ancient dowager empress of DUmmieland, whom I had hithertofore feared with Great Dread and Trembling Terror.
I may have been uh, somewhat bombastic about the old empress, but trust me, I was very careful in my choice of words, so as to not attract her attention, and hence vengeance. And the last thing I wanted was, her, of all people, looking around for me, because she was sure to get me.
After all, her being from the hip, the cool, the trendy, the with-it, San Francisco, California, and myself being from the lonely desolate prairies of Nebraska, the assumption had been made that the aged dowager empress had more, uh, cerebral capacity than this cowboy.
Never mind that Nebraska (along with Iowa and Kansas) has the highest literacy rates in the nation, the highest percentage of high-school graduates, the highest percentage of college graduates, and the highest percentage of world-travelers, in all of the 50 states.
We in the red states have been told so many times we're just stupid hicks, that we've gotten to believe it, even though apparently it's not true.