"The person you're roaring at, insulting, belittling, might not be here tomorrow" Exactly. [View all]

[DFW]

What Will Pitt said.

A couple of times in the last 15 years, that "might not be here tomorrow" was almost me. The most serious was before I even joined DU. The second was 4 years ago, and I still have the dubious distinction of being a candidate for dropping dead unexpectedly at any moment. I usually do what I can to avoid that, but stick a slab of fresh Gruyère in front of me, and I get weak very quickly (and I have to be down there in "Helvetia" tomorrow).

This is why I try my level best to stay away from "discussions" that devolve quickly into bitter arguments, and they do. As someone who is far from having my mind made up about who is my favorite in the primaries, I find the number of attack and put-down threads and posts depressing, useless, boring, and worst of all, irrelevant.

Bernie Sanders didn't dwell on voter fraud after the 2004 election? Gimme a break. Neither did John Kerry, and he had rather a bigger stake in the matter than Sanders did. Hillary is a "corporatist?" Gimme a break again. She enunciated enough themes in her speech to focus on that were positive enough. I care as much about who she danced with in 2004 as I care about Bernie Sanders' statement on the 2004 election.

If your candidate is worth fighting FOR, then fight FOR something. I don't care who is AGAINST whom. I'm against succotash for dinner. There will no OP from me on the subject, I promise.

There are plenty of people who chide me when I post, and at this point, it's for sitting back and keeping my eyes and ears open. I'm supposed to lose sleep over THAT? As if I didn't get too little sleep anyway with my day job. Yeah, I'm wrong for not deciding, and when I do, half of the people here will call me wrong again. If I live that long. You got time to rage on like that? Fine, but if you're coming to duel with me, bring only one gun. I'm not playing. With me, "life's too short" is not a cliché. It's something I learned while on a guerney hearing the cardiologist give me the good news.

We lost some good people recently. Real life people. People who read YOUR replies to them and now no longer can. Anything you might have regretted posting to them? Too late. Game over. If THAT doesn't make some people stop and consider raising the pH levels of some of their posts, I guess nothing will. But remember--high acidity levels eat your guts up eventually.