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[sad_goat]

Perhaps, it is time for the train to crash.

[lincolns_ghost]

Perhaps, it is time for the train to crash.

Oh, God, please...

[sad_goat]

lincoln-

This is not a wish. It is an observation. One I wish I could not even imagine. But I wonder if the modern-age Sumter hasn't already been set in motion.

[t_r_b]

lincoln-

This is not a wish. It is an observation. One I wish I could not even imagine. But I wonder if the modern-age Sumter hasn't already been set in motion.

Would you care to elaborate on this observation?

[claragold]

Perhaps, it is time for the train to crash.

OMG, that was such a tirade, sadgoat! ;-)   That virulent tone, those angry words, I know a tirade when I see one! :-)

I have added smileys (on the GRE they're called emoticons), so that our fellow double-standards-holding forumites can have more precise information concerning my feelings at this very moment.
 
It is a great day for America everybody, especially for Clara who has just watched over 40 minutes of Craig Ferguson on youtube (I hadn't seen his CSPAN dinner speech). He started out quite nervous, but he pulled it through and didn't crash. There you go, Craig!
 

[daurousseau]

Are there any Conservatives left? I thought I read that the bandwagon went over the cliff and disappeared from view.

[kmellendorf]

This is just a suggestion from a physicist regarding the intense desire to interpret on this thread, something I have never been any good at.  Why not try this alternative:  Say what you mean, and mean what you say.  I know it opposes standard philosophy in American society (and maybe even throughout the world).  It irritates a significant portion of the population.  It also requires a different set of adjectives and adverbs.  It often results in everybody being right in some ways and wrong in others, thus requiring a certain amount of humility.  Win/lose ceases to be the model, aiming more toward everybody understanding more.  Still, it does get to the point(s) while limiting the range of misunderstanding.  I find it much more productive and much less quarrelsome.

I am not criticizing.  This topic may work best in an interpretive environment.  As I said, I have never been any good at interpretation, at "reading between the lines".  When twenty possible interpretations come to mind, I cannot choose without enough information to eliminate nineteen of them.  I think this makes me conservative and liberal at the same time, or perhaps just an MC on neither side.

[gastr1]

Recognizing that it's hypocritical to deconstruct a generalization while freely generalizing about the accused generalizers
--priceless.

[sad_goat]

Recognizing that it's hypocritical to deconstruct a generalization while freely generalizing about the accused generalizers
--priceless.

And we have our first winner...