Dear geode00,
Over time, you too will discover the joys of SI's incomparable "ignore" feature. Mindless zombies will disappear right before your very eyes. Propaganda will melt into the background. Vituperative right wing slings-and- arrows aimed at Bill Clinton's crotch will no longer be misdirected to your display.
My advice? Try it on Jerrel. About a year ago, he disappeared off my screen and out of my consciousness. If you think he's stuck in a huge miasmal rut, you're right. His spewage hasn't improved with age, I'm afraid. You might as well have been reading his ancient posts. They say that consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. In Jerrel's case, I'll make an exception. In Jerrel's case, there is no there, there.
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Have you signed up yet for Mark Morford's delightful "Daily Fix" from the SFGate.com site? Terrific tidbits and tantalizing teases. Every weekday morning, far as I can tell. Here's a sample:
It is one of the sweetest and more
sighingly obvious ironies of all: America was, of
course, founded on radical thought, the questioning
of authority, the right to free speech, the right to
decry war and love your country so much you cannot
help but rant and scream and argue when snide little
uptight corporate clans like the Bush WASP mafioso
drain all vitality and blood from its heart for the sake
of profit and petroleum. And the lockstep jingoists
scream that if you don't like it, you should "move to
France," like that's some sort of insult and as if Paris
isn't one of the more epically gorgeous and historic
and funky and creative and snobby and wondrous
cities on the planet. Here is what you do: laugh,
openly, at such outbursts. And walk away.
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I have a theory I'm working on. I think that if we ostracize folks like Jerrel, jlallen and Tommy Watson and nobody answers them that these infantile attention seekers will get bored with jerking their own chains. What do you say? Should just ignore the whole rotten lot of 'em? |
