Your ego should be strong enough to bear the removal of a thread without cracking up.
I will also say I wouldn't cross a mod unless I had on lead underwear. To mods: I love all of you whatever type of creatures you are. :o)
Marcella, your advise is very polite and well taken; however, in my particular case this has happened more than once and again without any diplomatic email to me. Well, once they (the faceless ‘they’) sent me a private note to tell me what happened then gave me a two day non-paid leave.
At my age and experience it’s long past time for those like me to be treated like sophomoric college students. I was a professor and know from decades of experience there’s a right way and wrong way to ‘enforce’ rules, even though they may be groundless.
Perhaps Conservative old history professors should indeed refrain from posting and contributing to on a site like this. And perhaps I have nothing more to contribute other than writing historical novels and pieces for magazines and book publishers which I do. I am, therefore, out of my league here and being much older than most of you here have developed over the decades a thinner skin when it comes to faceless criticism. However, I have the hide of a father gorilla when it comes to roaring and railing against the consistent sins of the evil left that threatens our very existence.
I do wonder how many more FReepers there are that are like me in that they’re older, more studious than many and need a place where their work will be read and appreciated and what they see and believe important, one way or the other, I must now admidt that’s where I belong.
So I say, Zot me, but I will get back the last payment I made towards running Free Republic.
The one thing that drew and kept me here was that John Robinson has exactly the same slant that I have on what’s happening to America.
I bid you all a very fond adieu