[Professor S]

I know a good amount of that was aimed at me, as I refuse to shut up on political threads, but then again I make a point not to.

The reason why I do so is because I feel there is a lot of misinformation that goes around on the media about many things, including drug abuse, conservative values, the Iraqi war and the war on terror to name a few.

I can't help what the media portrays, but I sure as hell can help it when I feel misinformation is being spread to the masses here. I know a lot of what I say is very one sided, but that is basically to give the other side of the coin and try and inspire people to see and research the other side of the coin and not just believe whatever the TV tells you.

I will admit to getting heated at times, but that generally only happens when I am forced to repeat different facts, and I repeat facts, over and over again. The recent Michael Moore thread being the most recent example of this. An validity of an article written by the Wall Street Journal... I repeat... the Wall Street Journal... was thrown out by those who did not want to beleive the facts that it stated, and that is the ONLY REASON it was thrown out. That makes absolutely no sense.

Now while my political tirades may annoy you, I will not be stopping any time soon. If someone posts a political thread I feel is rediculous, I will not hesitate to make my feelings on it known as the alternative, in my view, would be to allow misinformation to reach more people than it already is.

I do think I've done a much better job very recently at avoiding long drawn out flame wars. I've decided just to make my point thoroughly and then let people make up their own minds. I did go on for a couple posts in the Green Party thread, but each post had different information and there were no insults whatsoever.