You must've read an awful lot of BG's posts, or you wouldn't feel qualified to comment, would you? And if they were all so bad, what were you doing there? So lessee.... my guess is you're the local reporter the editor only trusts to handle car crashes, cats up trees & the annual oxen pull? Or maybe a hotshot lawyer, your trusty CB tuned to local ambulance calls?

It's ok lil dude. At first I thought your post was meant to piss on both parties. Fair enough, I figured. But then you added that you resent him "using a political blog to crank his wank," etc. I can see now why you're upset that BG's got too much testosterone. Don't worry though - they got pills for that now. Even for little people. And you just made yourself pretty small.

I one-hundred-percent agree with you that it would be inappropriate to start a thread to attack a specific person.

But honestly, I'm not sure that's what we have here. The tone of the original posting seems double-edged. Until someone decyphers it for me, I'm going to reserve judgment.

quinn, esq:

Either say it to BG's face, or not at all. It's just manners. Mine ain't perfect either, but there you go.

Manners? as in 'acceptable manners'? but B Glad's 'manners' can be anything that give him whatever pleasure he can squeeze out of his obnoxious routines, and it's okay because, after all, he's just being B Glad being true to his real nature?

But you would denigrate any of us who would decide to discuss his effect on us with each other well out of his insufferable presence, and even not allow it if you could get away with that?

Well, I'm really glad you're not able to control us that much, even though you might try through your rather heavy-handed, if not altogether intimidating, gestures?

Or is it a boy thing mostly, where the guys are trying to stake out their turf in 'hood? hoho!

Dimitry seems more accurate and apropos in his response and assessments.

I feel so fed up with the incessant control-freak numbers so common around here ... and the hen-pecking order routines -- how stale, how rancid! jeeeeez ...

It's like I said, oceankat. Everybody's owned a shit-eating dog at some point in their life.

Oh, please don't be angry Auntie Em. I know you are old and ugly, and I'm the young beauty with the story to tell. And Mr. Quinn, if people didn't shit in public, some dogs would have nothin' to eat, would they?

Yes, I read it. I don't like being involved at all. I know some people have been accused falsely in the past -- and certainly, none of this is directed at you. But there are people on this thread using multiple avatars, and I feel compelled to point that out. I was cautious and didn't make any accusation until I was quite sure. Even now, I'm not getting angry about it. I'm just saying, right up at the top of the post, that this thread isn't what it appears to be -- so people don't get duped into having an imaginary argument.

I'd like to read that. I may have, if it's the one I'm thinking of, but perhaps not far enough down thread before it was gone. Can you give me a hint in the right direction to find it?

well, I think that management owes it to us to enforce its guidelines in a coherent, consistent manner (as much as possible); and I think B Glad's comments are typically abusive and full of all sorts of outrageous violations of just about every line in those guidelines.

but let's not pretend to have guidelines when they are regarded as only sometimes relevant, just depending on expediency or revenue-related issues ...

I stopped reading BG's posts for awhile and then tried to start again, but I'm mostly turned off in the comments where he starts in on people with such a visceral gleeful vengeance; just kind of too sick for me, I guess ... to each whatever ...

and, btw, if management does or will not enforce their guidelines in any truly meaningful way, that does seem to leave it to us to do what we can to correct one another, if possible. although I'll admit we're probly not up to that quite yet either, from the looks of things here! so god only knows, I suppose ...

but that's partly or perhaps mainly how I can rationalize wanting to cultivate or use this post with our freely expressed comments, even when various others think that it's outrageous! although I too tire of all the outrage at some point ...

because of the blatant disparities between what is professed to be our standard criteria and what we actually experience here at TPM ... I feel a frustration in realizing what we supposedly have all agreed to since it is not actually manifested evenly ...

I feel the integrity of TPM has suffered and I am sorry to see that ...

but I'll probly just adjust by avoiding the more unpleasant areas; if we can't do better, at least we're doing some things pretty well.

when I decide there's not enough here to keep coming back then I won't come back any more either ...