I am delighted that you believe that I am sad and pathetic.

That means that either I'm delusional, or you are.

Geez. This is what I absolutely adore about discussions of a polarized nature. One of us must surely be just steps away from the nearest grin-bin.

If I were you -- at one time I certainly was -- I'd be very careful about making any major decisions in your life for a little while.

I am quite well grounded by a circle of friends who all seem to be doing remarkably well, are in no particular SES, but they do possess a consistent set of core spiritual beliefs that I ascribe to. Everyone from the owner of a professional sports organization to a jobless vet from the Viet Nam era. And everyone in-between. Must be about a dozen different people.

If any three of these individuals, on the same day, told me I was a horse, I'd saddle up. So far, they all seem to hold me in high esteem.

What I'm saying is that I'd be willing to bet you're the party in this discursion who's a few "freedom fries" short of a Happy Meal.

What I'm not saying, but what must surely be obvious by now, is that the universe you are inhabiting is sending you some rather pointed, unambiguous signals with respect to the faith you are placing in your own pristine ability to judge others on matters right, wrong, light, dark, moral or otherwise.

Deafness and misinterpretation are no longer mandatory.

I think if you check other users, they have far more than my paltry 84 pages.

You are entitled to your opinions as am I. But don't expect that your opinions will go unchallenged when they cross the line into abuse.

No one writes hit pieces on schizophrenics or other mentally ill individuals unless they're violent and it's always with a public health slant. Had Eric Schaeffer's piece taken that tack instead of the tacky, compassionless manner Traister handled it, I wouldn't be here 84 pages later.

We have a violent, emotionally disturbed President who is killing and maiming hundreds of people per day. But Salon would like to slam sick junkies in recovery because of the value they have in putting human brains to sleep. "See? Your President's not so bad. Things are fine. Jerks are still being treated to drubbings and all is under control. Go back to sleep, America, everything's business as usual."

It's not. It hasn't been for some time now. Pretending that it is is a greater harm than anything Eric Schaeffer has ever done by orders of magnitude.

..hates Jews like another Jew.

...consistency like the inconsistent.

Drop some heroin for a decade or two -- live the life -- then pop back out into the so-called, "real world," and check out how YOU respond to the shock.

Over time.

There isn't a single second generation Jewish holocaust survivor family that doesn't have crazy, neurotic kids -- all them, down to a single person, abreacting to the trauma that their parents never processed.

...in the manly sport of verbal exchange. It wasn't pretty, but, in the end, the side buttressed by all that is right and true prevailed.

...but it's a start.

Today, I annoy you. Tomorrow, the WORLDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!

Moo-hahahahahahahhahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

The administration conducts a fake news conference using FEMA employees -- breaking the LAW in so doing -- and the editors of Salon choose to ignore the issue?

Screw the Democrats. Screw Republican-Lite. Screw the existing media apparatus.

Arm yourselves and hit the streets, boys and girls, or continue to be demoralized by your OWN inaction.