Hi Mamaemma. I have thought a lot about this. What I am seeing now is that it's mostly a news feed. I miss the philosophy, the banter, the science, the celebration of the mind of man. I'm just not seeing that now. Since I get news feeds from many source and my time is limited, I just don't take the time to filter all that out to find a nugget of gold. I miss you and a lot of the old timers that seemed to have mostly shrugged the Gulch also. Can we change it? I don't know.

It appears that the Gulchers have shrugged.

Pirate, on your previous post about this, Zen decried the fact that many of us have accepted what has happened in the Gulch. Do you see any way we can change what has happened?
You're one of the people I really miss.

I lurk occasionally, but have found little to comment on. The sense of life has left the Gulch.

Isn't it odd, Sarah? I feel like I'm caught in a hyper-conservative site.

couldn't agree more with you. I personally have taken a back seat and have watched as an establishment does everything it can to unravel a single candidate.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic...

This is the latest round of shenanigans, the likes of which I have never seen. For me personally I haven't been on here much, not because of a lack of content or interaction. I just haven't been posting much anywhere for that matter. I've got a plethora of articles I want to write, but can't seem to get myself to write them. can't get myself to do much of anything productive these days, but that is a different story all together.

I have wondered in the past, if folks would lose interest in posting with just like minded individuals. I mean there is some fun in trolling the "other side" and arguing a point.

I'm still here, but not finding much to say in the comments. It almost doesn't seem worth the energy to reply to anything. This weird sense of apathy about the Gulch is seriously freaking me out...

Just a little unclassified contribution to end my weekend. From my local paper recently-

International Monetary Fund MD Christine Lagarde calls for action to boost growth as downside risks were increasing without decisive action. She wants:
the US to increase the minimum wage,
Europe to improve job training,
emerging economies to cut fuel subsidies and boost social spending.
My comment: Of all those points, only one makes sense.

.. .. more blah then .. ..
To counteract those headwinds, she called for accelerating structural economic reforms, increased fiscal support and continued accomodative monetary policy.
My comment: To the extend that these words have meaning beyond techno-babble, conventional neo-Keynsianism says if you do something that causes trouble, do more of it to get out of trouble.

Glad you're here too.

And I'm damn glad you are.

I'm here. :-)

Yes. It's not the same.