I'd probably choose petting kittehs over walking dogs but I agree a break is probably good for everyone. For better or (probably) worse though, people are spending a lot of their lives online now and the conventional social , cues etc. of the RW are either absent or don't always work quite the same. People are going to take sides over everything from women in combat to Beyonce lip synching the SSB. What would be a friendly disagreement at the bus stop turns nasty on teh inner tubes for some reason. IMO we ahould at least try to move things in a better direction - futile though the attempt may be. Of course down home here we had one ol' boy shoot another one dead over picking the radio station to listen to, but that's just the way we roll.

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