[Michael_Michaelangelo]

Gee. I think we could have done very well without that "editorial."

Sorry you were offended by his comments, BB. Next time I go to post something from that site, I'll be sure to not include the Editor's commentary if it contains potentially flammable material. (truth be told - I find his commentary refreshing, informative, and funny)

[betty boop]

Next time I go to post something from that site, I'll be sure to not include the Editor's commentary if it contains potentially flammable material. (truth be told - I find his commentary refreshing, informative, and funny)

Oh, please don't get me wrong, Michael_Michaelangelo -- I didn't mean to suggest that posters of threads here ought to be in the censorship business. Personally, I like to see as full and complete a public record as possible captured in real time. Especially since many of our collaborators here are first-rate thinkers and experts in their fields.

On the other hand, I can relate to your observation that stuff like this is often funny. [In present circumstances, not to a Darwinist, though.]

Believe it or not, I lurk more than I post. And that's probably because there is a certain type of post around here that is so totally "out of control" that one does not dare to put one's foot in.

And those are precisely the most hilarious, laugh-out-loud, cry-till-it-hurts threads at FR, bar none.

And a day without laughter is like a day without sunshine: One just progressively "wilts."

So here we have two putative "public goods": (1) a [putative] standard of truth; and (2) the [putative] requirements of human sanity. :^) How to reconcile the two, in the proper balance that best conduces to the well-being of human life -- and that of the wider sphere in which humans operate?

That is the open question that no censorship policy will help answer.

But on the other hand, as a poster/sponsor of a thread, it probably wouldn't hurt anything plainly to point out the polemical or propagandist aspects of the work you're posting. JMHO FWIW

[bondserv]

The commentary is most often hilariously ironic. In our age of Political Correctness, we don't need more of the same.

Some of the best mud slinging comments are by Balrog. He ain't running for a position in the State Department, and neither should we. Nothing is more boring than passion free arguments. It's like no ones eternity is on the line or something.

If something someone says is stupid, it should be called stupid. They can take Dodgeball out of school, but they can't take straight talk out of a free exchange of ideas. I never call someone a Troll, because often it is the one who barks loudest that was hit by the rock that was thrown, and that might shake them out of their groupthink that has been conditioned into them by the world system.

Carry on posting the whole flaming mess. It does us all some good. But then I am a guy who was smacked around by my Dad at appropriate times. I can always tell when someone wasn't.