Give people an anonymous billboard and they turn into mean little critters. The phenomenon would make an interesting Lord-of-the-Flies-like study.
I will grant you that yesterday's downed-computer posting was not the most insightful or earth-shattering. It was but one morsel thrown out while I was eating my ham sandwich that might make somebody go "huh." I could've just concentrated on the sandwich and left you with nothing to read at all.
So what does one of our dedicated, politically thirsty and ungrateful blog readers call it? "Dorky." I haven't been called dorky, at least not to my face, since the 7th grade.
It's all right, I can take it. I see that you all moved on from my dorky comment and found your own thread. And new reasons to lob mean-spirited bombs at each other and the handful of politicians whom you blame for every ailment you've ever heard of.
I don't mean to be (even more) dorky here, but I wonder if it's possible to have a lively discussion without the mean-spirited bombs that you're only making because you sit behind the mask of anonymity.
Let's take a stab at the tete-a-tete between Neale Lunderville and Rep. Jim Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald, for his part, says he doesn't want to talk about it anymore, would like the issue to die down. No doubt, the governor would too, but he was asked a number of questions about it at today's news conference.
He says he believes it was a matter of two people interpreting an exchange in two different ways, and not a matter of either one of them lying. Though Lunderville and Fitzgerald agree that they had two quick discussions in which both the road project and the veto vote came up, the governor doesn't find it odd that both topics managed to get squeezed into both conversations.
He did say that the exchange of one's vote for a favor would be completely inappropriate. And that the politics behind which road project gets built is less under his administration than previous ones because of a point system that's attached to each.
Give it a shot - express yourselves on this one. But let's see if you can you do it without the cheap, mean shots.
- Terri Hallenbeck
