Re: The Poll

[khaosworks]

Thanks for the feedback. It's not that I'm taking people unfriending me personally - I know better than that. It's just that I am aware of the limitations of friends pages and I don't really want my friends' LJ reading experience rendered more painful by having to slog through my political rants if they're only really interested in my life.

On the other hand, splitting the journal is not a palatable solution because at the end of the day it's easier for me to keep everything down onto one journal. And frankly, the political ranting is part of who I am, as well as my desire to point out pieces of news that I find interesting. But in the end, I am soliciting opinions because I'm pointing these things out for you guys. If you don't wanna read them, I can just as read them myself and not point them out.

I briefly considered a [politics] filter, but that would mean friend-locking those entries and I don't want to do that, either, because they are of a public nature.

I suppose what I'm trying to say is that I'm going to leave things as they are. There are going to be cut-tags, and you can probably tell from the context whether those entries are political or news-related or not. Best I can say is that I'll try not to post too many entries a day, or do a "Political Roundup" kind of entry.

And let's put it this way: with any luck, once the Shrub is out of the White House, I'll have less reason to rant and rave.

So save your LJ friends page from spam. Vote Democrat.

Comments

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

So save your LJ friends page from spam. Vote Democrat.

*sob*

That's beautiful, that is!

[almeda.livejournal.com]

Optionally, you could, I suppose, make a 'nopolitics' friends group and put people in it at their request. :-> But that gets complex.

[catalana.livejournal.com]

Yay! I enjoy your political posts. I especially liked your link to Kerry's issues page. I admit that I wasn't keeping up with the democratic campaign until recently because there were too many candidates. (I wasn't eligible to vote in the democratic primaries, so I couldn't particularly affect things until they agreed upon a candidate.)

It is reassuring to know that I might actually be able to vote for Kerry with a relatively clear conscience. (I do not believe that anyone would be better than Bush; frankly, I think that people who state that lack imagination - I can think of a number of dictators who would be a lot worse than he is. However, I really dislike many of his policies (and, for that matter, the entire direction that the Republican party has been moving lately - they're really alienating the moderate voters) and I don't want to vote for him if I can avoid it.)

I'm especially pleased to see that Kerry says intelligent things about higher education since those issues are near and dear to my heart. Gee, wonder why. *grin*

Anyway. Keep up the good work!

[mroblivious.livejournal.com]

I enjoy your rantings. I also appreciate the cut-tags. That way I can get a general idea, and follow up for more if I'm interested. I also read my LJ friends page at work sometimes, and prefer to read political issues later, at home.

[javabunny.livejournal.com]

Don't worry about us--we're the ones who are playing voyeur after all.

Yes, I like to watch :P

[billroper]

There are plenty of reasons why someone might dislike Bush. (I'm not convinced that Kerry would be an improvement, but it's still many months until the election. Convince me.)

As long as you don't mind that I call you when I think you've gone over the top, I don't mind if you post. :)

[kaasirpent]

I like your "pundit" pics. They do the job of telling me what the 'mood' of whatever's behind the cut is. If I'm not in the mood for it, I skip it. :)