[MisterRepublican]

Yes, one must wonder about Mr. Pitt. He hasn't been well himself, lately. With his serious insomnia back in April (or was it May?) and his unknown ailment just a week or so ago, Mr. Pitt seems to be especially fragile at the moment.

That would certainly explain his inability to operate his computer and type a few words of encouragement to his old friend Andy Stephenson. Yes, that must be it.

But who knows? Maybe Pitt and Stephenson have had a "falling out" and are "no longer on good terms". Either way, Mr. Pitt has yet to offer his encouragement to Mr. Stephenson as of 6 pm EDT.

[franksolich]

Well, it's just really interesting.

I'll be posting links sometime later this week, showing how the once-vibrant, once-vigorous DUmmie "William Pitt" slowly deteriorated into the DUmmie PUnidiot he is today.

A deterioration which essentially coincided with the stampeding migration of the Andyites the summer and autumn of 2002, into democraticunderground.

One never knows for sure what goes on behind the curtains, but if public exhibition of conduct offers any clue, it is likely that someone, over a long period of time, was subjected to relentless cajoling, arm-twisting, and even threats of bodily harm, to see things the Andyites' way.

Add to the mix that this someone is known to be an unsure, pliable person with a "need" to hang around the "in crowd"--the moon borrowing its radiance from the sun, again--and well, it is easy to see what happened.

The members of democraticunderground who have been examining these long-ago threads with me, seem to agree that democraticunderground dominated by "William Pitt" was a much better, freer, happier place than the current DUmmieland occupied by the Andyites.

"Oh, for the good old days," they sigh.