Thanks so very much for the warm welcome, kind sir! Your comments are greatly appreciated!

Sigh. All Midland blogs appear to be to the political and/or religious right or far right.. (i.e. Conservative Republican) What diversity Midland shows! Anyway, best of luck Janie!

Oh how I would love to see a Midland/Odessa blog that was middle or left of Middle (i.e. Democratic with religious references left in church and not in the blog.) Question. Would site admin put one of those on her blog roll to the right? Hmmmmm.. I wonder....

a&mgrad, to find out the answer start here.

a&mgrad: You obviously don't read all Midland blogs.

But if you're disenchanted with the state of Midland's rightward lean in the blogosphere, please feel free to start your own and balance us out.

Actually making the effort to provide some diversity? Are you crazy?

In contemporary society "diversity" is only useful when there is a lack of it thus providing the impetus for a grievance.

They don't want the diversity. They want the grievance.

Yes, a grievance is much more fun than actually engaging in something. You might have to, like, think. Much easier to screw up your eyes, and whine and then have all the lily-livered people rush in to shut you up, patting your hand and saying, "Now, now, little man, Mommie still love oo. Does-um wanna candy?"

That doesn't mean that I won't take a grievance but by damn I'll take in my own hands, and mouth.

And a&mgrad, I do not exactly fit entirely into "political and/or religious right or far right." That's rather a broad net to cast.

Perhaps I am a late-comer in this knowledge ... but I notice more and more nowadays that with the advent of the Internet, whining and moaning and bitching and complaining have become ever more prevalent than in the good old days (when we used to have to, for instance, call or face up to someone). Today's instant gratification-whine has a lot to do with not having to attach your identity to your beef. As a result, complaining via technology without benefit of accountability has rendered many complaints less meaningful. It's also easier to whine. But mostly with emails and posts, etc., you simply just don't have to claim your complaint. Voila! It is en vogue. And it's aggravating. Dad always said a lot of people aren't happy unless they're complaining about something, And he was right. More so today than ever.

Jimmy Patterson

Jimmy, I believe that you're right. It's the same thing as the small boy who continually picks at the larger one, knowing that he is safe. Being the third-largest boy when growing up, I was taunted by some smaller ones, but that stopped as we grew older. I never had to raise a hand (except once in an El Paso hotel room but that's another, and hilarious story if you've the stomach for it), but once my tongue grew barbs, all the picking stopped.

Notice how a chihuahua yaps just outside the range of a foot wanting to kick it.

I've also wondered if Hillary Clinton wouldn't have been a mucher nicer person if she'd had the crap beaten out of her on the schoolyard. A boy with her personality would have had what makes her so unbearably her beaten out of him.

I volunteer to repair her education now.

Gentleman, I believe it's time that together we step up and change the world.

Theo: I used to work for a woman like Hillary. It's hard to understand what makes people that way, regardless their gender. They're built differently, and hopefully, they're in the minority. We can't take many more like them.

Ospurt, I see your point, too, but since the Internet is that new virtual coffee shop, I'm afraid that whine mentality is rampant online. I assure you. But you're right, it's everywhere.

So, since we are complaining about the complainers, does that make us part of the problem or part of the solution?

JP

So, since we are complaining about the complainers, does that make us part of the problem or part of the solution?

No, because that would imply that all opinions are equal and all judgments are valid. That is a dominant leftist, i.e., leveler stance which I reject.

You have every right, for example, to complain about bad English but you need to use good English to do so.

Still, your joke is the sort of recursive one that I find to my taste.

So is this the journo-perspective?

Whining without accountability: Bad.

A source that wishes to remain anonymous: Good.