This is a comment I made on another thread … quite a ways back, but that seems pertinent today..

I cannot tell you how much I appreciate each voice, each perspective, and even the edginess. But there are times when said edginess has spilled into something else entirely. When I was a child I had the [...]

Coming, again, out of reader mode, and into commenter mode. I did not read either post as they unfolded on either day. But, in going back and reading them afterward, I experienced a set of emotional responses. In the first post, MiL’s tone was quite indignant … and I would be too if I were [...]

MFI – I am a rare commenter here at FDL, but a daily reader, when I can be. I will miss your words, good and noble sir. I did not see either of the comment threads, but I am deeply shamed that such was ever said. I ask humbly that you accept my words of [...]

It really is sickening, isn’t it? Total disregard for consequences, as though the effects were *nothing* to be concerned with. I am well past appalled, these days. Not only did the FDA know this, but so too the companies involved. How do any of them sleep at night, I wonder. Thank you for posting this. [...]

I can’t decide if I am more pissed off or depressed in response to the links in the diary, and its much too early to begin drinking.

I have been kevetching about this since they changed it. grrr.

“It’s a concert.

And a multi channeled one at that!

Well, in rl we can get tongue tied and stumble over a word. (or 5)

Maybe its a digital, typing form of the same thing. My mind definitely goes faster than my hands … even my mouth at times, which is quite remarkable.

That should read “things” not “tings”.
LOL.

Holy moly, C-S, what a story! I am sincerely sorry that such a series of events unfolded the way that they did. I would have thought I was going crazy, too. I have never met a person, with a fire in their belly for justice, fairness, equality, honesty, or any other thing worth fighting for, [...]

When the music changes the dance changes

– African Proverb

The line, “I am their Leader, where did they go?” comes to mind.

What a heartfelt, moving essay and conclusion to your series, KrisAinTx. My observation point in this theater of the absurd, that apparently we now reside in, has led me to the same conclusion – if this is to change it will be because we, as individuals within the collective, changed our part of the world. [...]

Thank you for the encouraging welcome, JClausen.

Thank you oldnslow.

I am usually ‘here’… just don’t comment lest I think I can contribute something of value. And in this company, most points are more eloquently expressed than I could do justice to.

When I got married, bgr, I was totally against the whole thing! LOL. I have been married now for almost 40 years. I placed a ‘rider’ of sorts at the beginning of the church service that went something like this – though the church may bless this union and the state declare it legal, neither [...]

Coming out of lurker mode … Good morning. The topic today, as it pertains to the word “with” brings this to mind for me. Its a quote attributed to Gandhi… Seven Dangers to Human Virtue 1). Wealth without work. 2). Pleasure without conscience. 3). Knowledge without character. 4). business without ethics. 5). Science without humanity. [...]

I suspect, Isaiah88, this is because as a nation, as a culture we view bullying as a means to and end. Viable. Necessary. Economical.

When we address bullying, I wonder, how many other things will be addressed? Just my opinion.

Thank you E.F. Beal.

I have so missed his fonts.

We are looking for a collective tipping point. And each of us can be there, part of that. We must be. I think we must each find a way -a way that no one else can tell us or dictate to us: our own way- to be part of the tipping point. For we have [...]