[samtheman]

There used to be a time when even retorts were civil. She could have said something like well sir, I can go on a diet but there is no helping stupid. And then ignored him.

America is going tribal now, and it is our Wonderful Racial Peacemaker in the White Hut that has been fighting against this /not.

It took 51 posts to reach common sense on this thread. The fact that so many posters here are either crowbar-ready or nearly crowbar-ready to "defend my mom", or whatever... I'm sure that's the way it is in Detroit and Baltimore.

You say the wrong thing and you are lying in the street in a pool of blood.

That's the New Civilization.

[HiTech RedNeck]

These are the times that try our souls... well, they try what our souls are looking at.

When the whole community is being decent and gracious, the media carrying wholesome messages, then individual lapses in the same are more easily recovered from. Because we don’t need much of a faith when living up to the views of our neighbors or something equally superficial.

When public manners have gone to rot, now we can see who would prefer to love God and who would prefer to love the devil.