Wal Susan, I am shore sorry for surprising you like that. I am having a bad time of it, watching my well-beloved Mudcat be littered up with juvenile bathroom jokes, graceless crudities and mindless inanities from people who are old enough and sober enough and even educated enough to know better. I try not to contribute to the promotion of stupidity because I feel somehow it is the worst of human failings, even though I don't always succeed, as anyone can tell you who knows me. But I try. What I protest against is those who not only do not try, but have flung themselves full-bore into the multiplication of dumb-shit remarks and brain-dead jokery.

That's how I see it, and I guess I've shut up often enough about it. But every once in a while I let some steam off about it. Bear with me,. this too shall pass.

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