Cicero
Mayor
Well it's been years since last I visited PoliticalJack with the intention of doing a bit of posting and I find everything changed to the extent that I'm not certain that I can get comfortable posting here again. It's not the old names that throw me off. To be honest very few of you ring any sort of memory bell for me anymore. I mean I know that I once posted back and forth with a good many of you but that's about it.
Hell, I've actually had to look at my control panel to see which ones of you I was 'friends' with years ago. That's not a mark against you, by the way, that's just the way my aging brain works nowadays. Out of sight, out of mind. Ah the joys of racing toward sixty.
It's the altered format that gets to me. Unless I am more at sea than usual there's no longer any way to create a hybrid view of a thread. It's just straight in line or nothing. Shudder! Why would PJ have switched to such a restricted format? Ah well, no doubt that change was made years ago. That's how long I've been away.
Do I actually want to post here again? I don't really know. My regular stomping grounds have begun to irritate me. But perhaps it's this new presidential cycle. It's too damn early for things to already be this damn crazy. I mean people are seriously talking about Donald Trump as a viable presidential candidate; the man who is famous for melting down in mid campaign. Then we have the Queen of Corruption, Hillary Clinton and at least three different government organizations getting serious about the e-mail scandal with her. Really? This campaign cycle has barely fluttered off the ground and yet already there is a hurricane of controversies and drama. I don't know if my poor ol' heart can take it; fun though it has been so far.
Yeah I think I will try this for a while and see if I can make myself adjust to this outrageously limited posting format. Who knows? I might even manage to talk myself into liking it.
Hell, I've actually had to look at my control panel to see which ones of you I was 'friends' with years ago. That's not a mark against you, by the way, that's just the way my aging brain works nowadays. Out of sight, out of mind. Ah the joys of racing toward sixty.
It's the altered format that gets to me. Unless I am more at sea than usual there's no longer any way to create a hybrid view of a thread. It's just straight in line or nothing. Shudder! Why would PJ have switched to such a restricted format? Ah well, no doubt that change was made years ago. That's how long I've been away.
Do I actually want to post here again? I don't really know. My regular stomping grounds have begun to irritate me. But perhaps it's this new presidential cycle. It's too damn early for things to already be this damn crazy. I mean people are seriously talking about Donald Trump as a viable presidential candidate; the man who is famous for melting down in mid campaign. Then we have the Queen of Corruption, Hillary Clinton and at least three different government organizations getting serious about the e-mail scandal with her. Really? This campaign cycle has barely fluttered off the ground and yet already there is a hurricane of controversies and drama. I don't know if my poor ol' heart can take it; fun though it has been so far.
Yeah I think I will try this for a while and see if I can make myself adjust to this outrageously limited posting format. Who knows? I might even manage to talk myself into liking it.