As many of you know
MiddleFingerMom is active in two groups at DU, The DU Lounge and the Good News Group.
Now I don't know what the hell you guys do with him but all I know is that he starts every morning with an optimistic bit of fresh and hopeful news with a thread called "Find Something to be Happy about Today":
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12671635
It appears that after he starts all of us out with a smile on our faces he hangs out in the lounge and gets worn out in all of the high falutin' jocular nihilistic ramblings of the sophisticated witticisms of the self medicated 'cool kids' in Da Lounge.
Well all of us in the Good News Group are teetering on a high wire existence somewhere between the confidence of taking a Kiekregaard post breakfast leap into the world and a state of existential Sartrean angst filled nausea, spending the rest of the day vomiting under the nearest Chestnut Tree.
He's now asked to take a leave of absence from posting his signature feature in our group and from our small group of barely functional neurotics we would request that you would leave our beloved MFM alone and allow him to continue to lead our small group with a morning dose of good news.
Unlike the neurotics at the lounge we haven't mastered the skill of self medication.
Oh yeah MFM, get well, we mean it this time.
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Ok - you can have him back. But the drugs stay here.......And a couple of them nurses, too.
Wha'd he say? Does he think we are corrupting MFM?
Does he wanna arm wrestle to see who gets to keep him?
He thinks Lounge Lizards are the "cool kids"? Don't tell GD or those toughs will be coming over here to give us wedgies and swirlies. 
He's OURS, dagnabbit, and you can't lay claim to him. If we wear him out with our hijinks (and WHO you calling non existential, Buddy?) then it's clear who he loves. So there.
Seriously, I hope he's reading all our concerns and good wishes and knows how much a part of the function and dysfunction of DU he really is.
...on me in college thirty-plus years ago, and I'm not about to start thinking about them now! So just keep your Sartrean angst to yourselves over there, and leave us the hell alone--WITH MFM! We'll e-mail you The Loung Guide to Self-Medication just to placate you this time, but from there, you're on your own, pardnuh.
. In the meantime, 
And, FYI, we Lounge denizens are very secure with our neuroses....... 
One fucking Grass Root, that's who. And as a friend of hers, I spend hours every day looking for a good news story to share every day. And it ain't easy. It's a whole lot easier to find a happy animal picture, and if MFM doesn't want to do that any more, I will. I mean. really, WTF? Those of us who post nice stories every day are crazy, in your judgment? Maybe you're just trying to be funny. I didn't laugh.
Please enlighten me if I have totally misconstrued your post. Just looking for common ground.
