Tim J. wrote:

jeff miller wrote:

salmobytes wrote:

salmobytes wrote:


This is a false argument.

I'm going to give everybody a break and take a powder for another
month or two. I do like to talk about fishing, and there are
places--out there on the net--where that still seems to happen.

There are plenty of ROFFers here who still do that. But also way too
many (like me) who don't. I keep getting sucked into these hopeless
political quagmires. Bait fishing is a much more satisfying bad
habit.

aw hell...i was just gettin to really like you too. g

of course, you're right.


Well, not really, IMHO. How someone can write that much stuff, hit the
send button, and then say "Damn - they sucked me in AGAIN!" is puzzling to
me. At what stage of that process does one realize they're being sucked
in?Rather than periodically doing this and then staying away from this
place, wouldn't it just be easier not to reply, and easier still not to even
read the political stuff? It wouldn't be much fun, but easier nonetheless.

you don't think bait fishing is a more satisfying experience than
tilting with some of the human windmills here? you have been sick,
haven't you? g

as someone who has easily yielded time and again to my own human
weaknesses...one of which properly but sadly ended my first marriage to
an especially fine lady ...i fully understand and accept the power of
"getting sucked in" despite what might have been the better, wiser,
easier course.

with regard to the issue at hand...at some point you just have to say
what's on your mind. it ain't always about what's easier.

jeff