Yippee-Ki-Yay!

Nobody’s Opinion: Finally…another Bruce Willis film. My husband and I are going to have a hard time deciding which to see first…Harry Potter or Live Fast & Die Hard.

Like most American’s, we love a good movie. Just recently, they built a nice new cinema at the mall not far from our house. The seats are softer than the one I am sitting in now…you just sink into them. The sound system rumbles, and can kick-ass in explosions…even the popcorn doesn’t get card-boardy until at least half way down. It’s almost edible, with the right soda.

A definite improvement from the Wednesday night dollar shows we use to go to.

The Die Hard movies would be just the kind of action stuff that would have been simply awesome at the drive-in. Sure, the technology wasn’t there, and most of the time you couldn’t see the whole screen, but you didn’t care.

Yeah, John McClane on a summer night, kicking back in the lawn chair would have been just awesome. It gets so warm here at night. And there’s always a breeze. Ahhhh

If I actually could stand the taste of beer, it would be a good runner up to post-heaven.

Back in the 1970’s on Friday night, people used to pay about six dollars to get in (And that was for TWO people, kids free)…park the car, take out their lawn chairs and their coolers, watch the sun set…put the blankets up for the kids. And it was great. You would look around and see America…the hard workers getting their night out. The kids always fell asleep by the end of the second movie, and if they didn’t you’d drug them. (Just kidding)

Hey, the kids were excited just to be with mom and dad. It was almost like a mini-camping trip.

Well, darn…the drive-ins are gone. Even the dollar shows are gone. But the new movie theaters are really awesome if you can afford to go.

And even though we now have all these humongous theaters, with all this new technology, we’ve gone to first weekend openings here this year, and there are usually only about ten people.

The other two thousand stayed home.

Actually, this makes it nice because you have the whole theater to yourself...and you can put your feet up and feel like, yes, you are so rich, you can afford this personal home big screen.

I like to keep that illusion until I realize those stupid hand puppets start dancing and singing and I can’t turn them off with my remote.

And then…I wonder whose bright idea it was to built eighteen theaters, which can hold up to probably the population of Cuba, if they didn’t expect to fill them up with more than four people at a time? Somebody somewhere is really hurting for that decision.

The attendance is so bad around here they are starting to sell one night event concerts tickets. Tell me…who wants to see a concert on the big screen?

Does that sound exciting to you? Watching my dog eat ice cream is more exciting.

They also do this thing to get you to go to the new releases…the cable networks before the opening dates have all the first sequels on over and over. Have you noticed? I thought Star Wars was actually being fought in my living room, and remember they even put R2 on a mailbox, the last time they released it. I was looking for the force in my oven.

I was wanting to buy a blue lazer for the back yard.

So…last night, they had Die Hard 2 on TV to get us all ready. Die Hard 2 was made in 1990. Remember that date.

And just when you think you’ve seen a movie so many times, you find out you missed something.

Well now…how did that happen?

For those of you who have seen Die Hard 2, the bad guys make Bruce and his buddy Samuel Jackson go on a “riddle chase.” And one of the riddles they had to solve was who the 21st President was.

Then they said something very interesting. They said that the 43rd President was going to be Hillary Clinton. (Bruce and Samuel) It really had nothing to do with anything.

My husband and I looked at each other and said..."'What?"

I say that since it was made so long ago…its proof that the Clintons, despite Hillary always saying “I don’t know if I’m going to run….” in that squeaky voice of hers, had big plans.

It was proof that the Clintons were going to run Hillary right after Bill, and this move was thought of even before Bill Clinton because President in 1994. Four years before.

Makes you wonder. Did they pay for that to be written in the script? Was the director just good friends with them both? How long have they been planning this global Presidency?

And then I remembered that this same thing happened in the movie Pluto Nash with Eddie Murphy. Hillary Clinton’s portrait was on a $10,000 bill.

Also…remember in Demolition Man when Sylvester’s Stallone’s character was told that Arnold Schwarzenegger was going to be President? That movie was made in 1993, long before he ran for governor. Arnold has now become a liberal.

Sandra Bullock said that Arnold would put in the 61 amendment. Oh boy, I can’t wait.

And now we hear that on the hit Fox series…24, a woman President will be introduced.

So, this movement to put woman leaders into place has been going on for quite a while. Like Al Gore’s movie being forced on all the schools kids…kids are being primed at a very young age, with subliminal suggestions passed on by their favorite movie stars…

Who to vote in for President when they reach the right age.

Coincidence?

I don’t know about you, but I get so pissed off when names of current politicians are placed into my favorite movies, just for brainwashing sake, that my husband has to give me that “look.”

The look of “Drop it, your spoiling my fun.”

I do, but it’s not easy.

So, at a time when the little boys are being feminized by our school systems, and our movies are dropping strong hints about how to vote to all us nobodies…it sure is good to see Bruce Willis, doing his action thing, and reminding us all just how good it is to see a real man, take control, blow up the bad guys, and save the girl, earth…or whatever.

Unlike Harrison Ford, or Matt Damon, or most of the other liberal woozy men actors in Hollywood…Bruce is more like the characters he plays, than not.

About the war he said, “Yeah, I’m pro-war. If you say that you’ll look like an asshole. But I am for stopping world aggression. And sometimes that takes punching em' until they don’t get up anymore.”

Maybe we should send John McClane over to Iraq.

I have no doubt that Bruce Willis could probably solve the whole thing pretty quick.

In fact, he should run for President. I've vote for him.

Nobody Cares; Bruce also said, “If you write something that sets the record straight, people won’t want to believe it. Millions of people want to believe whatever they think I am, nothing that has to do with really meeting me or talking to me. So correcting the record is one of the things that I have given up on. I don’t’ give a shit about it. “
Vanity Fair---2007

Showing this nobody that yes...life is full of synchronicities.

Bruce Willis…you’re the man. Think I’ll take that advice. I’ve been practicing my …Yippie-Ki-yay’s so that when I go to see the movie, I can be ready.

But this time…I’m taking water.

Nobody's Absurdities, No. 47

Nobody’s Absurdities:

“Truth is an unseen quality that emanates from the masculine principle. A lie is the lack of truth in the absence of manliness.” ET..I mean EG.

So, does this mean that this motorcycle does not exist?

I’m so glad EG said that, and not someone like Gandhi. Truth is now sexual, and lies are now feminine, which means if guys…lie, they are gay?

Could you be just a little more clear on this?

Being nebulous is always a good way to get out of absurd statements.

I certainly would like to get back to being myself again...BUT....

If I don’t say at least SOMETHING about EG’s last personal attack on me, than EG will, like the jihads over in Iraq, think that I’ve conceded the points he made, and that he is right about women never having an original thought in their lives: Hedy Lamarr is basically being a whore with no brain according to him, and Joyanna Williams (see Nobody Cares) is so pathetically starving for attention…that she just knew, by answering his silly hypothesized point (that no one woman ever in the world ever thought up a “conceptual’ invention)…that she would get plenty of attention, thereby trying to prove her own “superiority.”

Yes, if you disagree with Elder George, you want attention. Watch out, Elder George is now a practicing psychiatrist.

Elder George, you are a real pip. You ask for “one woman,” as proof, and I gave you one.

Trust me George…if anyone is superior here on this earth, it’s not you or me.

Frankly, I’d rather be writing about more important things…like the fact that Hillary Clinton plans to, when elected, supply the whole continent of Africa with new schools for all the kids, and her husband is giving away cows and farms all over the world, at OUR expense, thereby destroying the Ozone with cow flatulent, so that Al Gore can make money. No kidding…no one is reporting this absurdity.

To me, that’s my part in stopping this Marxist/feminist takeover of the world.

(sigh)

And yet, even if I was not enlightened by EG’s “poetry,” some good came out of the arguments. Mike LaSalle, was brilliant and educated us all on logic and principles: amfortas was the usual enumerating professor of life: Kate M supplied some pretty good stuff, and I really enjoyed Artfldgr’s comments. Thank you sir for all that you wrote on the subject…boy do I know where you are coming from, having been there myself.

And all the other writers put in their two cents…all were cordial, except for Mr. 666.

If you want to know the frustrations of an inventor…read Artfldgr’s poignant comments. Being an inventor is getting harder, with globalization. (Oh, that must be a woman’s fault.)

The feminists movement was started (big time anyway) by Marxists of the university’s in the 1960’s and women were forced back into the work force. This whole “movement” was planned (Rockefeller has admitted it.) to get women back into the work force …and some women just had to go back to work just to feed themselves, because of all the divorces. Not all of them got rich divorce settlements. What a mess the “sexual revolution” bought.

Of course men built the world. Of course more men get patents than women. I never said they didn’t. Of course some women are evil, and so are some men.

If you haven’t learned that by now, you never will.

But to say that no woman on earth could ever conceive an idea is, sorry-- pretty stupid.

Here is a fact: Almost all inventions are built on the ideas that came before them. Very few “men” (feel better?) wake up and say, “Oh…I think I’ll make an MRI today.” …right out of the clear blue sky.

EG cannot help that he never invented anything…conceptual. It’s hard to understand when you don’t know the real process of inventing. Artfldgr did an excellent job trying to explain it.

Tell me. If you wanted to find out about “inventing” would you believe a man who thinks up philosophical theories, or would you ask actual inventors? (My patents have ONLY my name on them.) Would you ask a doctor to take out your spleen--- or a mechanic?

I presented inventor’s educational opinions as evidence, EG presented…himself.

EG…I don’t know where you get your credentials on this.

Did you know that a man named Meucci developed the telephone, and was unable to develop it because he didn’t have the $250 application fee? Bell, developed his “invention” in the same lab that Meucci’s prototype was kept, in other words, he copied it. And THEN, a man named Grey actually filed before Bell, but Bell got his to the right people FIRST and was given the patent. So he ripped off two men. Therefore..

Ahhhhh…..

“Of course, people can sometimes reasonably differ on the obviousness of a piece of evidence cited in an argument, or they can blind themselves to the truth and can even refuse to listen to rational argument at all. The best intellectual reasoning can fail completely to overrule strongly opposed passions.” …Tom Morris, PhD. Philosophy for Dummies.

And to end this, I thought that scottkirk said something that was a very good point;

“I think E.G. and a few others are simply counter-attacking after 40 years of vile feminists demagoguery that has thrown America into Chaos.”

You know what Scott? I think you’re right.
And the whole thing was fun…

But one more thing...

Nobody’s Cares: There is only ONE thing that truly amazed me about EG’s “truth.” He was obviously SO upset about my mentioning that I got my proclivity for writing from my ancestry, that somehow he looked up my “maiden” name…and he didn’t even get that right. He just had to go and get all PMSie and he thinks, proved me a “fraud.” He even threw in a nasty comment from an e-mail he got.

Yes, once again EG...you got it wrong.

I was born Joyce Ann Williams. My father, Dale Williams was German/Polish/ Prussian…but it was on my mother’s side that I get the Adams’ gene.

Which means in EG's world, it’s not valid.

My mother’s father…George Hart's mother was related to the Adams. …(see picture of George, with picture of John Quincy Adams here…you must scroll down to the bottom of the page, look for A CALL TO ARMS...and compare.)

The top one is George Hart (my grandfather)...the bottom is John Quincy Adams taken when he was about 80.

All the men on my mother's side look like that..bald, short, stubby..even my mother looked like a female version of John Adams, poor thing. Good thing I look like my English grandmother, Anna.

It was my first entry on my "blog."

George’s mother was Francis Adams, (descendant of the founding Adams) and his father was Orion Hart.

In fact, going back farther to the beginning of the country, the Harts and Adams were all over Braintree…they often married…Harts and Adams.

The Harts and Adams alone probably alone filled up half the country, before the revolution even started.

The Harts and Adams came over on the same boat as Thomas Hooker. (Founder of CT) They went to live in Braintree, named after Braintree of Wales. The Harts helped the Hookers found the little schoolhouse that later became Harvard. Hartford was named after John Hart…

I even have a land deed from 1763 that my grandfather gave me....when King George was still ruling America…John Hart selling his land to the son of Thomas Hooker. (It’s pretty cool)

It's in Old English..and is real proof of how far our educational system has come. (that's a joke.)

John Hart (Orion’s ancestor) had a farm on ford of the river, and everyone use to say, when giving directions; “Just go down to Hart’s ford.”…which morphed into Hartford.

Our family has done a genealogical research, it’s really fun to read. One guy got killed by a mule. One guy had a rock fall on him. If you have never done one, you should, they are really funny.

Anyway, when I was a musician, I went under the name Joy Fushia, because when you are a public figure, you do not want to use your real name to protect yourself from nuts, and family reasons. People can't look you up in the phone book.

I thought, in honor of my ancestors, and because I am mostly interested about politics, I would make up a name…much like Mark Twain made up his name. So Joy (short for Joyce) …Anna, (after my dear grandmother) and Adams…

So, Elder George. Why you went looking for “information” on me is beyond me. I thought it was rather...hateful. After all, I didn’t go looking for your last name…surely your first name is not Elder. And I respect your privacy. It's the decent thing to do when in public.

And if you go looking to find out the name that I sign my checks by, or the name that is my married name, I hope that you will have the decency to not reveal this information, because I have a son, and a husband, whom I do not want hurt by anything that I might say now, or in the future.

I’d advise you against it. It’s a matter of my privacy.

In any case…I’m a mutt just like all the rest of America. I got my eyes from my grandma, my musical ability from my dad, my “inventor’s” proclivities from my dad, and my mind from my mother.

My brother on the other hand, is an alein.

And my horrible addicting habit of collecting books, loving to write, loving justice, truth and honesty in all men, and loving the subjects of politics, I got from the Adams. Oh, they also had a habit of having men think they were conceited.

Which you obviously think I am because you wouldn't have gotten so upset.

As far as thinking that George-- trust me, you couldn't be farther from the truth. You have NO idea.

Anything else that upsets you about me can be blamed on “unseen” spiritual truths of which I have no control.

So, what do you think? I bet you any money a woman thought up that motorcycle and a man just put it together.

I want one.

Nobody...Can Think Up a Title For This One

Nobody Absurdities: The picture pretty much expresses it...the comments on my Hedy Lamarr is an inventor piece.

Lions and Tigers and Bears...oh my!

The fight is on! Let the fun begin! Since there were so many answers to my last piece about Hedy Lamarr, and so many different “suppositions” about just what I was actually saying--- instead of continuing to rant on my other piece, I’d thought I’d give it a go here.

First and foremost, I want to thank, once again, Mike Lasalle. Not only have you graciously given this nobody an opportunity to write and practice every night; you have provided, with your own money, and sweat, and I'm sure many, many, countless hours of hard work…to make this site a great place for men to discuss their anger and pain, and the many injustices that occur in order to provide a place for them.

Not to mention all the other vast writings of those that write about politics and humor-- like Doug Powers, or the wonderful mind of Denise Noe...and Bob Parks...all the other many great writers that fill us all with such knowledge and enjoyment.

Thank you.

You are a good man, of high intelligence, and great compassion…a rare human being.

The men should thank you more.

To the Men…to insult this man who has generously giving all of you an opportunity, shows a lack of…well…I won’t say it. To call him a "feminist" just because he is siting a "point" in argument, is just plain silly.

I think the reason that Mike actually understood exactly what I had said, was because I’m sure he reads me every day…and he knows what my opinions are on the differences between men and women. I’m not for one or the other…just truth and common sense.

Actually, if anyone had read most of my stuff, you would know when I’m kidding, and when I’m serious. And Mike and I agree on this one subject…Elder George has a different point of view.

So what? ….once again, let me repeat…so what? What’s the problem? He’s siding with a woman? And another man who does not write on this site?

You can’t be serious.

Anyway, let’s take a look at the thoughts one by one;

Scottkirk: men/women have different strengths that complement one another…the (new genderless society) will try to prove otherwise.

Nobody Says: I’ll drink to that. The new “one size fits all” is insane. I hate it, you guys hate it…and we must all fight it. We’re all snowflakes.

GVrooman says: Ms Adams airly dismisses the people who have to work out the detail. Then he sites Edison’s famous quote of 1% inspiration, and uses it to show that Hedy therefore deserves only 1% of credit.

Nobody Says: I know a little something about the patent process myself, since I have three…I got them without a patent attorney, because I didn’t have the money for one. When my patent examiner called and said “he was really impressed” with my work, it really made this nobody’s day, because I had worked many months and put in hundreds of hours on my “idea.” If you have ever gone through the patent process before, you will know that there is a lot of work…researching the patent system, writing claims, and in the meantime you are working…looking for the right material, the right machines, the market, the inventor has to be involved with all processes of his or her “idea.”

I never said I “dismiss” the people that work on the detail. But, it’s much like building a house. Let's say you draw up the plans…then you hire a carpenter, a plumber, a landscaper…would you say they “invented” the house, or the man or woman who designed it? It’s still your baby. You are the conductor. Therefore whether you did the manual work or not, in the inventor’s world, you’re still the inventor. Like it or not, those are the rules.

Edison had lots of very capable engineers and designers taking sometimes one of his napkin drawings and going from just that. Nevertheless…he thought of the concept, like Hedy.

So Mike was right…the discussion here was on answering the question of whether Hedy should get credit. And in the inventing world, as you see from the banner of the Boeing building…she does. It’s not just me, or Mike, or Jack Lander who gives her credit, it’s her peers. I think I remember reading that she spent many, many hours with all the men secretly developing her idea. After all, a war was on, but I’d have to find that article.

Infidel said: (By the way, love the name) Joyanna wrote: “Lots of women are excellent inventors, and it’s only that they’ve come to accept the myth of male superiority in the area of inventing that holds them back.”

The truth is that most women are mechanically inept. Hedy got most of the men to do the work for her showing that she didn’t do anything on her own.

Nobody Says: First: That was actually a quote from Jack Lander…a man in the field of inventing. He is an engineer like you, with the difference being he has worked in the inventing field all his life. He is probably the most sought after advisor in the inventing field in America due to his monthly columns in the bible for American inventors, “Inventors Digest.”
Most women it’s true, are mechanically inept. But nowadays, quite a few men are joining them. This isn’t the 1950’s anymore, where every guy could fix the Ford in his garage. The cars have changed, and so have the guy’s interest.
Actually, I think Jack is right. Women have always been told that they can’t do it, never will, don’t try, so they give up sooner. Not to mention the child-bearing years do take at least 18 years out of your life. And that’s a long time.
BUT…that doesn’t mean that women can’t be taught, if they wanted to learn, and that’s the “point” being discussed here. Are women capable…given the right time and place, and attitude? I believe that some are. And now with all the divorces, women are being forced to learn at least basic things.

Notice to ALL MEN: Read my typing: Some women are…not all.
I’m getting tired of repeating myself here.

Now, here’s a personal look at it. For many years, whenever I went to “talk” to any businessman about..oh say…plastic prototyping, or manufacturing, folding machines…whatever…it happens every single time…I get dressed up nice, and it always seems that no matter what I said, the man I’m talking to wasn’t even listening due to two reasons…actually three:
1. He first thoughts were sexual…a pretty girl…mmmmm…must be stupid.
2. Oh…a blond…must be stupid.
3. Well…I can’t take her seriously, uh…what did you say?

The rest of what he was thinking is up to you to guess.

Now, once in a while, you can tell the real intelligent men…they don’t care if you are a frog, a Roswell alien, or playmate of the year…they get right to your conversation and idea.

Hedy Lamarr was considered in her time the most beautiful woman in the world. It was her misfortune to be born with a brain AND looks. I can’t imagine what she had to go through.

Since men NEVER, ever, ever, have that problem...they can not even relate to it.

Now, back to Hedy…her husband brought up the problem with the torpedoes. It was stumping the entire governmental body of engineers. And Hedy thought up the solution. You’re really stretching it to say that if not for her husband she wouldn’t have known about it, therefore she gets no credit for it.

What’s the point? If Tom Edison had not read his entire town library when he was eleven he wouldn’t have known about Telsa either, therefore he should get no credit for the light bulb?

Now, let’s get to this “guts” thing….that…well, that stinks.

Most of history, men have gone to work, women have stayed home. (Now, as we all know, due to divorces that is changing.) Most husbands want the woman to be there when he gets home. He wants the support. Right? Right. (I’m not saying that’s wrong.)

Now, lets say the woman has an invention…she has to work late into the night at her lab. Do you think she’d be married long?

So, it’s very unfair to say that she doesn’t have the guts. The reality is, a woman has to sacrifice a personal life entirely to go the distance, where a man usually doesn’t.

As far as sports goes, of course women can’t compete. And if you think I’m making that point, you’re being blinded by your own ignorance.

Infidel, I do believe you’ve never met your equal, but do you want to? (ha!)

INTERMISSION: Nobody gets a diet soda and some cracker jacks. The toy is not inside, darn it. Back to the next guy who is:

Thurston861: Man resorts to insulting Mike…calls him…oh my god…a girl dog. Is this guy on steroids? Did he lose his video game? Was the walk home too exhausting? Did the fast food place forget to give him his taco sauce?

MIKE: Mike of course, makes brilliant points; saying exactly the truth…I especially love when he points out, “On the other hand, it’s no use at all, even un-American, to deny an individual the credit for invention solely on the basis of their not being from the statistically correct gender.”

Nobody Says: Hey, now that’s one I can put up on my wall! Yes, it IS un-American!

Elder Goerge: I misspelled his name because he misspelled mine. (It’s okay Elder, I forgive you.)

He did not even read me again…because he did not notice the fact that I credited him with remembering Hedy’s hair color, where I did not. He is obviously a little confused when it comes to this inventing thing. He still insists her husband invented it, and questions Jack Lander’s knowledge…ha, ha!

Well, that’s okay. Jack Lander has 11 patents, and I’d bet my dollar he knows more about the subject then Elder George.

Nobody Says: Mr. Elder, I’d suggest you actually read this whole thing again. Sometimes it takes more than once to sink in.

Thurston861: Insults the editor again, complaining as bad as a elephant in heat that it’s actually a men’s PMS site and Mike is no longer is playing by the fact that the Marxists are taking over the world, and he has run out of drugs. Then he gets really nasty, and shows to the whole world the exact way NOT to act in any situation if you want to be considered to have an IQ above a tumbleweed blowing toward a fire.

Nobody Says: Actually, I write all the time about the Marxists taking over the world, Thruston666. It’s one of my favorite subjects. As far as you attacking Mike with such creative platitudes…you only show just how much you do not understand the subject…which Mike keeps pointing out to you. You are colored by your own mirror, which as I keep reading is cracking…into…little pieces.

Well, it’s getting late….and I must speed read the rest.

Lloyd Selberg…thanks for your support…I appreciate it. I agree…insane. It was nice to see some common sense in all of this.

MMX: You’re pretty much off about me being upset about Elder George. The whole thing on God was just a small humor piece…I basically took a typical afternoon at home with my husband, made him God, me Mrs. God, and went from there. I wrote it for the sheer fun of it! And it was! After the blog written by Mr. Elder, I thought all the arguing was pretty silly, and thought it was time to lighten up a bit. You forgot to mention amforatas’ many wonderful renditions of God with man…which were really great!

Hey, at least I made a man god! I could have made a women god as most “feminists” would have.

As far as me being insecure…one thing, I beg to differ sir. I,--- with not anything that I have done on my own, by shear accident, have discovered that I have a talent that was handed down to me over generations…a genetic “flaw” if you must.

Of course, as Jack Lander would know, it took some good men to push me into using it.

I am the seventh-great granddaughter of the original Henry Adams. And if you know anything or have ever read about the founding Adams, they all: John, John Quincy, Sam, Henry…wrote like mad. They read like fiends. And I have their “madness’ in me.

And as sure as the moon goes round the earth, I couldn’t get rid of it if I tried. And by some fluke, it came into a woman’s body---lions and tigers and bears…oh my!

I will be writing with hopefully more and more confidence every day until I die, lord willing. I’ve only just begun…to make a fool of myself.

Therefore, with the madness of such a genetic drive, I have no insecurity at all about writing. I have insecurity about a lot of things, but writing isn’t one of them.

Being able to find my car in the parking lots has me worried, though.

Sooner or later, with hard work and practice, I might make my ancestors proud.

What I do know, (see what Glenn Beck started?) I write about many things that no one else does. The mind is such an amazing thing…and life all around us is so full of..you know! WONDER. There is so much to observe!

Einstein said, "There are 2 ways to live your life: As though nothing is a miracle. OR --As though everything is a miracle."

I love that...

I also have the ability to see “political” things that drive me crazy, just like the guys on this site start foaming at the mouth about “women” ….

Get me around the Clintons, and I want to chop down the nearest tree.

So, see, we all have our passions. It’s just that we must learn to control them.

John Adams said he thought a man should always state his “opinions.”

But, it’s important, like in any disagreement, that we don’t say things we will regret later.
It’s the smart thing to do, it’s the right thing to do…and when we don’t do it, we should apologize. Remember …

“Every action done in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those that are present.” ----Washington’s Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior.

No, it’s not 1776, but it’s never too late to learn.

And no matter how passionate or right your cause, if you can't be civil about it, no one will listen.