ok, I'll use this as an excuse to link to the Official 2007-2008 Guide to Euphemistic Political Bullsh*t that I created last year: http://swordscrossed.org/node/1721

1.) Flop. See Ambrose Bierce’s definition
2.) Toss to the wolves.
3.) Bozo Repudiation
4.) Antagonize.
5.) Is it dumbed down enough?
6.) Hoi polloi. Doesn’t need “the” in front of it, “οἱ πολλοί” is already “the multitudes”
7.) Elitist swine.
8.) Nuestro país
9.) He’s comfortable with a skinful.
10. Would not let him drink my good scotch.
11.) Hackery
12.) Heretic.
13.) Tribalism
14.) Flavor of the month.
15.) Give them everything but help.
16.) Chanted the x shibboleth.
17.) Unwashed rabble.
18.) The X Incident.
19.) Character Actor
20.) Dolchstosslegende
21.) Ozzie and Harriet Syndrome
22.) 1337

no, further over...

now back a little...

up a smidge...

there!

“I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.”

- - -

Rust never sleeps.

This is the calm before the storm, The longer it lasts, the bigger the explosion at the end, just like when you keep blowing and blowing into a big red balloon.

So I'm buying right into your karmic teeter-totter meme. There will be a correlation between you falling off the wagon and various natural disasters, including a rain of frogs, a plague of locusts, and at least one half-full bottle of VSOP Armagnac being left uncorked overnight so that the genie evaporates and only colored water is left.

Rust never sleeps.

your way out of the bet as things go on.

But given that

upset some basic balancing component in the universe

is only your first attempt after a mere 4 days, I think we're in for some real weirdness here.

... and of course the recent spats have been happening in spite of your guys's most excellent example ... really you're every mod's wet dream.