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Top Comments can be found around these parts every evening at 10:00pm ET. So, if you discovered some funny, erudite or informative comments that you want to share with more people, you can nominate that comment to TopComments at gmail dot com OR to the internal messaging system here at DK4 (make sure to send it in by 9:30pm ET).
Anyone can share. Just make sure to include a link to the comment and a few words why you sent it and don’t forget to include your DKos username before you hit “send” on that email.
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As the days slowly warm, spring unfolds its bright colors before us as daffodils and then tulips emerge from their underground cold storage. We revel in this vivid awakening as the dreariness of winter fades away. The planning and hard work of gardeners from the previous fall is not seen until the many months later as the warming weather coaxes bulbs to spring to life.
This same cycle happens with our farmers who plan ahead for next year’s crops. Our architects and engineers plan and build our communities, cities and infrastructure. Lawyers plan and lay down the work to improve our governments and their functions. Teachers plan and work for our future. Our police and firemen plan and prepare for our safety.
Like a gardener, they tend to the basics that make our lives flow so smoothly and yet we often take it for granted that these building blocks of community are not a given. They aren’t automatically there. Good communities do not spontaneously erupt. People must carefully plan and build and tend.
Some would forget this cycle of life or tear it down. Because they won’t directly benefit from seeing a tree grow, they refuse to plant one in the first place. These are the people who refuse to plant more schools. Or high speed rail. Or plant the research seeds for renewable energy sources.
The world needs more gardeners.
When a community is tended, thistles cannot grow (tweaked and borrowed from The Secret Garden).
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
--Emma Goldman
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Now it’s on to the TOP COMMENTS OF THE DAY submitted from Kossack readers. THANK YOU very much to everyone who took the time to send in these most excellent comments to share with the DailyKos community.
Today’s Top Comments mailbox had the whiff of meta as the Mojo Recalculations diary from kos stirred up some commentary.
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From smileycreek:
pat bunny provided an apt diagnosis for the recent mojo maladies on the site.
From Gabriel D:
Way down thread in kos's Mojo recalculations diary, Senor Unoball responds to blue aardvark's...unfortunate choice of words.
From a gilas girl:
I'd like to submit for your consideration this comment by punditician in the diary Could we maybe get a discussion about race right for once? by glendenb... about the incredible privilege of never having to learn anything that privilege often seems to claim.
From bronte17:
Normally I don't go for the bathroom joke stuff, but when Pescadero Bill put Obama on Rodin's Thinker Throne... it started a humorous chain reaction FTTT down the thread in RFTB trolls ruining RFTT diaries from, of course who else, Bob Johnson.
[Could there be more acronyms in a diary?]
And especially for sardonyx and his numeric inclinations is this comment from LaughingPlanet in High Impact Diaries from jotter.
Finally, wrapping up our Mojo Gazing for the day... Seneca Doane dissects customs versus rules in the contentious issue of "threadjacking" and replying to Tip Jars.
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Top Mojo is on hiatus until the Search parameters get tweaked.
As always, THANKS for reading and sending in those Top Comments!