soz gives spendi a gold star:
Tico, I know what you mean. Basically I get what Butrflynet said about how she has found A2K politics to be offputting until recently, and I'm happy that she currently feels like it's more congenial; and I'm aware that people like cyphercat and osso who don't usually participate in these kinds of things are keeping an eye on this thread and pop in now and then. I *like* having these non-regulars pop in, and I *like* how this thread has gone on for more than 700 pages in a relatively on-topic and interesting way. Partly it's the subject -- with the campaign season so damnably long, it's one of the only possible current-events-type topics that can remain, well, topical for almost 2 years. It'll stop being topical by November 5th or so (hopefully! I don't want another squeaker), but until then I'd love to keep it going the way it has been rather than devolving into boring squabbling.
I started my politics blog thread partly because I didn't want to keep plonking links in here but there were things I wanted to have available for future reference -- that's a restriction I put on myself in part to encourage other people to participate here (it's boring if it's just the same one person over and over again, and I realize I've posted a lot today, so with that I'll wrap up. :-))
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