Kevin B,

I agree with you wholeheartedly. I should know better than to lower myself, and in principal I know you are absolutely right.

However, in my defense, I will admit that it is easier said than done when I find myself constantly under fire and being attacked personally for voicing my opinions, which are admittedly very strong. I can take someone attacking my views, countering them with opposing views, facts, or logic. I don't expect everyone to agree with me, or to change anyone's mind.

But when I am constantly called a traitor, a communist, an idiot, belittled, disrespected, insulted, told I am "angry" because I have not achieved enough in my life (the f***ing NERVE some people have is AMAZING!), that my comments are "assinine", that I should get a new job, that I am just jealous, that I am not in the real world because I work for the state and that my benies and pension are somehow a "handout" or a "gift", etc. etc. ad nauseum, ad infinitum...

I think any reasonable person would eventually get fed up and strike back. I can only be expected to take so much.

After all, I'm only sub-human! :p

But I promise to try to do better, and will steel myself against their slings and arrows.