Do you really?! I'll bet they must be hilarious!! I stopped reading OPUSes 4- 5 years ago, unless I am in it fer the pure hilarity factor. Don't these good folks realize that they are no big shakes? They are but pawns in the bigger scheme of things over on TOS, and when they leave to make some grand point, they simply fade away and most of their work at TOS is lost to posterity. That's too bad, but nothing to lose sleep over.
OPUSes are a RIOT...I'd love it if some of the EX-FReepers could link us to their grand exiting OPUS at FR.com...I'm sure we will all fall outta our chairs laughing!! Of course, when BADJOE left, his OPUS filled me with a sense of angry righteous indignation, but most OPUSes are simply self-important folks lambasting the FR.com PowersThatBe fer not realizing the brilliance that was in their midst until it was too late. My response to every OPUS is the same..."Arivederci!! Sayonara!! Hasta luego, BABY!! Don't let the door hit you on the butt as you exit the premises!!" To me, surrendering yer post at FR.com--or LP.org, fer that metter--is a cop-out and a moral failing.
But I had to learn this lesson directly from JimRob hisowndamself!! I never posted a public OPUS, but I wrote 2-3 and was ready to send them, but in retrospect, I'm glad I did not...LOL!! No, instead of public OPUSes, I'd spend hours putting together a moving private OPUS to JimRob. To paraphrase..."Dammit, all the hard work I put into making FR.com a growing vibrant entity, and I get treated like THIS?! This is how we can better this place immeasurably...Blah blah blah blah..."...it went on from there...LOL!!
More than once, JimRob's only response to my well-conconcted case fer change within FR.com was one word..."LEAVE!!"...LOL!! Often, JimRob'd add in a sentence of two explaining "I never liked you anyway" or somesuch, but the most common FReepMails I ever get from JimRob were "Leave" or "Knock It OFF!!"
I came to understand exactly what those two statements meant...
BTW...maybe we'll learn something from reading these OPUSes, and you know the OPUS writers still have links to their OPUS that they could share with us fer the betterment of Conservatism...maybe all the folks who wrote OPUSes and fled TOS fer greener pastures left us with some nuggets of wisdom we can use at LP.org or whatever WebForum replaces LP.org as the second-best Conservative WebForum on the planet. Lord knows, there are a lotta things I'd change over at TOS if I was in charge, but as JimRob's made perfectly clear to me on multiple occasions, if you don't like it, you can always Leave!!"
But that'd be a copout, and I ain't letting Dem RINO BA$+ards win becuz I got lazy and forfeited...I just love my Dual Posting Privileges...more of y'all oughtta try it...LOL!!
Regards, all...MUD
Ummmm, OK.
But why tell me the sordid details of your bout with the kinds of crude behavior modification efforts one'll find in places like this on the WWW?
I'm not Dr. Phil, Steve.
I dunno but I gotta say to me this screed of yours is embarrassing.
Listen pally, I told you once to look at "The Record", your record, for yourself.
Here's what *I* see of said record:
1) You've a *lovely*, intelligent, faithful & dedicated bride.
2) Two gawd-awful cute kids, second to none. {~& it doesn't matter a wit if their good looks, brains & other many positive attributes come from Renee, either}
3) You own your own home, dutifully pay your taxes.
4) Although you're somewhat a menace on the Internet, you're not to your community.
5) You've a solid education & a great career to show for it. {~providing you don't blow the career part by over-patronizing places like this?}
Y'know something pal?
*That* kinda "record" ain't bad, and I'll wager bests a full 98% of those around here.
Sad then you don't seem to quite understand said sterling record'll never be quite good enough for the types of losers, flakes, fruits & freaks so prevalent in cyberspace, these days.
Get it?
You don't necessarily need to "get a life" Mud, as I so often kid ya.
You got one.
Now suppose you try to *live* it and do so to the fullest?
Then it won't matter WTF *Jimrob* et al says, does or otherwise.
In fact that guy might even learn to appreciate your raptor-like wit, "Franklinesque" statesmanship & infinite wisdom, once it's absent.
The long & short of it Mud is that Robinstan won't have you to kick around anymore, eh? :o)
When you simply don't have the time to be at this -- or any of the other numerous TOS' -- nearly as much as you seem to be, you'll know you're doing it *right*.
Capiche?
...now knock it off!