Comments on: What makes you keep coming back?

By: Joanne

Joanne — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:33:03 +0000

To me you are a comfortable pair of slippers and a good cup of coffee. Can’t do without either.

Ah, that’s so nice, Mary T. Thanks.

Welcome home.

By: MaryT

MaryT — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:30:26 +0000

Just returned home after 2 days in Calgary, and first thing I did after turning on the computer and checking e-mail was log on here to catch up on what has happened since Sunday. Most of the above posters have said everything that I could or would say. To me you are a comfortable pair of slippers and a good cup of coffee. Can’t do without either.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:12:34 +0000

I still like the free donuts, with every comment.

Write Joanne, and she’ll email you a few….

How do you type an emoticon donut?

(o) ?

By: Joanne

Joanne — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:08:37 +0000

…You’re smart, and civil, you have a sense of humour, and your posts are well-written. I must admit though, that those attributes alone wouldn’t necessarily be enough to cause me to return, as I do, as a daily reader and occasional commenter; the “X factor”, to me, is a subtle, particular, hard-to-describe combination of common grace and guts which is somehow more than the sum of its parts…

Wow! I should do this kind of post more often. Marvelous for the ego.

But seriously EBD, I’ll try to live up to that praise. Thanks.

By: Moebius

Moebius — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:08:37 +0000

The message that seems to be coming through here is ‘respect’. I think there is a tendency among some bloggers (especially left-leaning) to either attack the commenters when they don’t agree with the writer, or to allow personal attacks among the ‘guests’.

I try to discourage personal attacks, because it tends to sidetrack and degrade the discussion.

I’m trying to avoid that, for the same reasons. Some trollish robotic lefty-voters just get me started. If you want to vote Liberal, don’t claim that it’s for their brilliant environmental vision. Admit that your dad was a Liberal, and you’re not sure how to make a contradictory assessment yourself.

“Sure, they stole taxpayer’s money, but they’re not Satan, like that awful Steven Harper!”

By: Moebius

Moebius — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:02:32 +0000

Moebius, you’re too funny, but I have to correct you here: “we both think John Tory stinks on ice”. That’s you, my friend who thinks that. I think Tory is a bit bone-headed, and has poor judgement, but stink? Nah. Dalton’s the one who stinks.

That goes without saying. But which PC leader condemned us to endure Dalton’s brilliant economic plans for the next 5 years? It wasn’t Mike “the Spike” Harris!

Poor judgement is an understatement for a leader who brings up an idiotic idea like religious school funding, when he had the lead in the polls before the election was called.

I still like the free donuts, with every comment.

Write Joanne, and she’ll email you a few….

By: EBD

EBD — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:29:17 +0000

Tori, Gabby and Sol did hit it, right off the top. You’re smart, and civil, you have a sense of humour, and your posts are well-written. I must admit though, that those attributes alone wouldn’t necessarily be enough to cause me to return, as I do, as a daily reader and occasional commenter; the “X factor”, to me, is a subtle, particular, hard-to-describe combination of common grace and guts which is somehow more than the sum of its parts.

David Thompson (dot typepad dot com) is, to me, a good blogging example someone having the full measure of both attributes.

By way of pointed comparison, Jason Cherniak has common grace. Full stop.

I dated a woman from France — turned out she was 32 and a bit, ha ha ha — who had a saying, a phrase that sort of sums it up, she’d say of a particular person who was socially popular, a bon vivant, highly amusing, etc., “ah, but could you trust (him her) in a war?” I knew what she meant. Integrity and merit require “guts”.

Sense of humour too, is really important, as others mentioned. All the blogs I go to daily, with one exception, are run by someone with a sense of humour.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:42:57 +0000

Hey Sammy, you may want to avoid this one too:

http://conservativequeen.blogspot.com/2008/07/too-friendly-relations-between-liberals.html

By: Sammy

Sammy — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:40:19 +0000

Sorry Jo..I just can’t do Antonia.My B/P,and weak stomach won’t allow it.Only so much filth one can take in!!

By: Joanne

Joanne — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:10:29 +0000

Sammy, lol! I hear you. I feel that way whenever I read anything by Antonia Z.