Dan, are you listening??
get your ass back here!
I miss Dan Spires as well. He was mildly conservative in thought yet fiercly liberal in some of his beliefs. He was the Voice of Sanity until up Gulf War II. I think his son was enlisted, and then he sort of disappeared, just before LarryJ if I remember correctly, because of the screaming, defiant liberals here who were against the war. And as the conservatives parodied the party line and tried to shove it down our throats, we shot right back at them. I believe some threats were thrown around, real time.
Those days here were not pretty. If you smell angst here some days, know that it's not even one tenth of what it HAS BEEN.