Hey, I welcome anyone’s comments, as long as they’re at least somewhat respectful. I love meeting new FRiends. I’ve been here since 1988, and who cares? I don’t even remember how I came upon this site. I’m no one special. Someone being new may have an even better understanding of an issue than me or someone else. Me, I’m just a dummy with my own two cents. There are a lot more intelligent people than me here, that’s for sure. Yes, indeed, I’m tired of the “high school” type mentality of people as well. It seems that a lot of people just want to post a “hit-and-run” type comment — they just want to post their insults. I will not allow my FRiends to be insulted any longer. A lot of my favorite posters (and they were great posters with great articles) left FR because of this, and I almost gave up as well. They contributed a lot, and I miss them. Keep plugging along, buddy. :-)
I’ll try. ;^) Yeah, I noticed when I was lurking that things seemed more like a big family here until around about six months before the 2006 elections. Then it got insulting, selfish, elitist, and downright vile sometimes. I could see the shift quite clearly, but didn’t know why it was happening.
Well, time to take a break and watch a movie. See ya. BTW, been on the local news two days in a row that opposition to the OheilO smoker ban is heating up among small business owners.