...before I logoff tonight and go to bed.
Arthur?
Pay attention to this bit from Glenn Reynolds. He is hitting on something crucially important, that has to do with things like the (ahem) "progress" of American culture, precedents, and how some people played 'em off.
This is a large subject that demands serious attention. It's been on my mind for a long time.
All I'm going to say right now is that it is really sad to me to see you hanging out with some of the utterly disgusting creeps that you do.
Listen to me, man: they don't even know where the road is, far less how to put rubber on it. They're punks, who would feed your ass into a shredder for "society", as soon as they got their hands on the machine that they've just woken up to whining about since January of 2001.
You're better than they are. Ditch 'em, even if you end up online all by yourself.