[FreeTheHostages]

Timesink, I'm going to way in publicly on this one because you're a great addition to FR.

Especially if you're "flaming" the "report abuse" button, a suspension was probably *good* for you too. I think what happens on any given day here -- by which I mean all of this -- doesn't matter *that* much, Timesink: it's still just cyberspace.

In short, if you want a reality check, I think you should take things less seriously and the Admin had a point. I know you're annoyed at the Admin right now, but they HAVE to be right at least about the "Some thicker skin might help." C'mon, so you were suspended. It's not this scarlett "S" anyone's going to put on your forehead.

In Shipping News, a great fiction author Annie Proux has a great line: she refers to her protagonist as having a "child's sense of morality." It was a compliment. But for the protaganist, it was also a weight. In that book, which I highly commend, it meant believing that if you're good good things happen and if you're bad bad things happen, and being shocked and outraged if bad things happen when you're good. I almost admire people who retain that kind of moral outrage. Call me cynical or call me aged, but I find it hard to get shocked or outraged or care so much.

A beer. I wish I could upload you a beer.

[MrLeRoy]

A beer. I wish I could upload you a beer.

Pusher!

[Cultural Jihad]

In Shipping News, a great fiction author Annie Proux has a great line: she refers to her protagonist as having a "child's sense of morality." It was a compliment. But for the protaganist, it was also a weight. In that book, which I highly commend, it meant believing that if you're good good things happen and if you're bad bad things happen, and being shocked and outraged if bad things happen when you're good. I almost admire people who retain that kind of moral outrage. Call me cynical or call me aged, but I find it hard to get shocked or outraged or care so much.

A beer. I wish I could upload you a beer.

Nice post.