Lunatics Can Whisper

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Tuesday June 26, 2007 · 12:03 AM PDT

2007/06/26 · 00:03

Driving home from work last night, I remembered a line of Armando's, and I laughed out loud.

The line was inscribed in a front-page diary of McJoan's, in which--to my mind--she rightfully took to task Senator Webb for failing to show sufficient spine in his opposition to the occupation of Iraq. A majority of Kossacks, however, very volubly differed. Armando, as was his wont, bombastically descended to decry their handwringing as "the most pathetic display I have ever seen," the product of people who were "unhinged." Confronted with a Kossack who asserted that "[t]his is such a tame thread--I can't believe you think this is unhinged," Armando replied with the line that made me laugh out loud:

Tame and unhinged are not mutually exclusive.

Lunatics can whisper.

I then started thinking about people here whom we have lost. While intending no criticism of site administrators--in Armando's case, I agree that, when he went, it was time for him to go--I thought it might be nice if we might, for a time, recall fondly those who, for a time, were here with us, but are with us no longer.

So who do you miss?

Even people you feel the site well rid of, who you might have even assisted in running onto the autoban, or into the unforgiving arms of an administrator . . . is there a time, ever, when, wistfully, you recall something that unperson might once have said?

The fallen don't even have to be banned people. They can easily equally be people who, just through the natural order of things, have from this site fallen away.

Again: no criticism, here, allowed, of banning decisions.

Just a fond, gentle stroll, down memory lane . . . .

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