Marlboro, hon, I hope you'll take a lesson from Big Calhoun and stick around in the background and still interact on some of these other forums on occasion. I consider you an important part of this community, and I know how offputting the loonies and immature name-callers can be on the politics board. I've decided just to lie low in there till some of the idiocy calms down, then discuss on the rare occasions when I see people having actual intelligent discussions in there.
Here in the other areas, it's reassuring for me to see posts from cool folks like Graph, Jamstigator, Fengzi, Oneironaut, Billionfold, Orangeman, you, Gray-Matter, Big Calhoun, MaryJaneintheCloset and many others (this is not an exhaustive list of those whose civility I respect). Seeing these posts reminds me that there are sane, reasonable, intelligent, friendly, courteous friends to be had out here--and that this is still a cool place to be. Anyway, I hope you won't completely "throw in the keyboard" just yet!
