. . . and enjoyed reading the comments too.

I hope the dude is right who is convinced that HRC will be indicted. But your view is important too. It might go down one way and it might go down the other way.

All part of the discussion.

I always enjoy reading your essays!

starts shouting at me with caps about how wrong I am regarding an issue or an opinion it tends to make me lose it. I one time got into a loud and heated argument with a Libertarian who wanted me to sign a ballot measure petition for recalling our then governor and replacing him with a Libertarian. Our argument was not about the governor but about Libertarian's vs Liberal's.

This was on the side walk in front of Powell's bookstore. A bystander said I think you two are in closer agreement then you realize. You both seem to agree that the governor is a crooked Democrat posing as a liberal. That stopped us both cold. This was before I could even operate a computer. Maybe we are we both thought.

and making mistakes is the only way to learn something in my opinion. But then,of course, there are some people who never learn a thing no matter how wrong they are. I stay far away from them and TOP.
I came here just a couple of days ago...or so I thought. When I tried to sign up the box told me my account already exists.I have no idea when I signed up. Why is the twilight theme playing in my head?
Should I be worried??

is getting hungry and needs a break. And I am not wrong about that !

So, JtC will give you us now the amount of prayers we have to do to be forgiven?

I just love this church. The Gods are merciful around here, all we need is a resident priest. And he/she will shrive you all of your sins. /s

Amen.

It seems to me it's a blog that is really trying hard to be a place to gather without the rancor, propaganda and authoritarianism that the so called 'progressive' blogs are wallowing in. Kind of interesting to see how they run. The breakdown seems to me to coincide with the so called net based progressives side of the Democratic party.

There are no god's in politics regardless of what Lloyd Blankfein claims. They are not doing god's work here on earth they represent the other side the one we should all askew . I don't mean the republicans but the ever present priests that through out history have brought human misery to a fine art.

That abusive comment(er) seemed to turn a common phrase around – You’re entitled to your own facts, but not to your own opinion.

Both your post and the response you’ve referred to cited useful information, just came to very different conclusions. It could have been a very useful thought experiment, except for the responder’s tone being personally offensive, then when called out, going on to being personally defensive.

But to answer your closing question, yes. Embarrassingly so. Days before Scott Walker’s recall vote, a story was posted in a Wisconsin op-ed blogsite claiming that Walker had fathered a child outside his marriage, and covered it up. The story posted no author identity, not even a user name, just said it was published by the blog managers. The story even hit TOP. A blogger there and I both tried to stamp the fire out, as the story appeared to be a cheap shot, and could help turn opinion against the recall.

In the process, I got into an online argument with the proprietor of a Wisconsin blogsite which was prominent in the recall community, for having cross-posted the unsourced story. In that exchange, it looked to me like my comments were being removed, when in fact my computer was so jammed with multi-tasking that it wasn’t refreshing pages properly. So I made the accusation that I was being blacklisted at the site….wrong!

The TOP poster managed to reach a well-respected Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reporter who had been cited in the unsourced op-ed, and he put the matter to rest as total hokum. TOP removed their cross-post. The blog I got into it with moved their cross-post off its front page. I posted apologies for my accusation both at another story about the whole mess at TOP and at the “accused” site. The originator never removed its cheap shot fabrication, and it was cited in MSM as typical hysteria of the recall mentality. The recall, as you know, for multiple reasons, failed.

But where I was clearly wrong for having made a false accusation, you just speculated on what you thought would happen, or not. That’s part of what I look for and find is part of a learning process. You did no harm, and deserved no verbal retribution.

And BTW, one “safe space” I do wish for, is a place where emoticons (I’m refusing to update the word for something that just creeps me out anyhow, with a word that’s even creepier), rather than people, are banned. For now I just quickly scroll past until the annoying little distractions are off screen.