wesw wrote:his avatar seems to show where his loyalties lie...
Do you even have the first clue about the source of Scooter's avatar??
I'll concede that Scooter can be biting at times, but generally only when truly provoked - I seem to recall (I could be mis-remembering, not from Lyme disease but from a middle-aged brain that juggles hundreds of fact patterns every month, in addition to all the other details of life) that he once took out his wrath on me, and if that did happen, I've no doubt I said something stupid and/or antagonizing to compel that response.
It's interesting to me - my new signature line is reflective of this certainty of uncertainty - how very differently people see other people, depending on their lens on life. As for me, I've always considered Scooter to be one of the fairest, most eloquent and well-informed posters here or at the former CSBs; obviously some folks see him differently, but my impression is that he's generally dispassionate unless he truly believes somebody is playing BS games or dealing underhandedly.
Of course, I also think rubato is a generally decent bloke, too - and doubtless Gob and LJ will reply by saying I'm totally nuts. To each their own, I guess.
In any case, wesw, now having seen
your pattern of posting, I don't find you very trustworthy and I'm even inclined to question if you are who you've presented yourself to be. It seems to me to be pretty troll-ish to join an established online community - intimate as this one is - and to, within weeks, begin shit-stirring to this level. I'm totally happy to see new people join - it's far too quiet here compared to how it once was - but I certainly don't want to see this place degenerate to the hostilities that once plagued us.
For instance, the other day in the thread about Eric Holder, you essentially accused me of calling
you a racist, because I agreed with an assertion in an article posted by Sue that referred to the controversy around Holder's tenure being in some part due to 'lawyering while black'. I CLEARLY wasn't addressing you
at all (even though you made it clear you didn't like him), so I refused to rise to the bait of your passive aggressive bullshit attempt to start a fight with me - life's too short and frankly, I don't have time to waste of someone who is mean and troll-ish like that, AND can't spell or write worth a damn.
So if I don't seem to be reading what you're posting in the future, you'll know why. You can get advice about your anti-virus from LJ or Gob.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
