I respect you for your position on the name calling and personal attacks, Tom. You are also willing to take action, and not to sit by and watch others here be personally attacked.  It looks like even though I did not request it, some of the comments that were deemed to constitute a personal attack on me have been deleted.  That shows me that you are for me, not against me, even though you may disagree with some of my comments and with some of my ways. 

And I respect your willingness to confront me on areas in which I go astray, and in a way that allows me to learn and grow, rather than putting me on the defensive. 

Thanks for taking an interest in my scholarly research, anon, though most of my published work has involved disseminating information to the lay public via articles of a more informal nature exploring the relationship between psychology and spirituality, and between music and psychology.  For example, I interview rock artists such as Barry McGuire, Pat Boone, and the Quarrymen (group from which the Beatles were born) from a psychological perspective and most of these types of articles are published at Phantom Tollbooth. 

But I also have done some research involving scholarly work aimed at advancing knowledge in the field of psychology, some of which I have submitted for publication, and some of which has been sitting on a shelf collecting dust.  Here is that link I promised.  This is an abstract from an article of mine published in the Creative Research Journal:

http://www.leaonline.com/do...

You don't need to take any of it down, Tom, as I've posted something probably biased in the other direction to offset the other review.  But Tom and Hardliner, I do appreciate your support in terms of the name-calling.   As I've mentioned before, I welcome constructive criticism, and everything that either of you have offered me in the way of criticism has been constructive.  I take it seriously, and try to improve myself accordingly.  Sometimes of course, we all fall back on old habits, but I hope to avoid that as much as possible. 

I'd encourage people, to take both reviews with a grain of salt, and to listen to the songs, and read my words for themselves, and then they can form their own judgement.  I am capable of writing both good songs and terrible songs, and I am capable of saying both smart things and stupid things.  I am above all, a human being full of flaws.  I am a work in progress.  As they say, "Please be patient, God isn't finished with me yet."

I'll try to come up with a link to a professional journal article of mine for anon, even though he or she is not even willing to reveal his/her identity.   And BTW, it was a pretty good guess, but that's not where I am presently teaching.   As a matter of fact, I haven't taught there for years, not that I would be ashamed of teaching where I went to school.  I was not, and am not.  If I were an inept student, they would have never hired me. 

Anny,

Thank you so much for those gems.

Dr. Tuna-on-Toast, classic!

Anny, in response to this quote "In the last few day, it seems everyone is attacking each other, we didn't use to do this sort of thing."   Actually, it has always been like this on the blog.  It calms down for a while then somone will get a burr under their saddle and the fight is on.  This is tame compared to what it used to be and even that was tame compared to the old Bakersfield Posting Board about 5 years ago.

I doubt there's anyone on here who hasn't had a raging or running battle with someone at one time or another.  We're no different than any group of people with differing views, the only thing that changes in person is that you won't hear them calling each other "ignorant" and "idiots" or "stupid" to their faces.  At the meet up the ones I met were courteous and fun....we had a great time.

Speaking of the next meet-up.  I hope it comes on one of the off weekends I have coming up.  One grandaughter is getting married on the 18th in Vegas, my nephew by past marriage is getting married here in town on the 19th.  My one granddaughter is graduating the 8th grade on the 30th, another family member is graduating high school on the 31 and my second oldest granddaughter is getting married on June 1.  Anyone care to float me a loan?

Sumo

I've read P&P half a dozen times.  The BBC film version with Colin Firth was ferfect.

I love JA's style of writing.

Do you read her.

BlogNroll

I got tired of the same topics being hashed out over and over and over.  No one's opinion was ever changed and the only result of the arguing was hurt feelings and anger.

I'd love to blog in a forum where all ideas and opinions we're  treated with equal respect.   Where everyone understands that an opinion is just that  ....someone's conclusion of what "truth"  is.  It occurred to me one day that no one has a monoply on the truth. 

We could all learn so much more without  the bickering.  Until then, I'll just pop in occasionally to "keep my hand in".

BTW

Back in the day when I was addicted, I blogged under the following names

MyLefteFoot  (way left)

Elizabeth Bennett (a real bitch)

Judge Judy (a bigger bitch)

But, who gives a rats behind.

I was addicted to blogging for awhile.  That's when the BLT's of the world really got under my skin.

When I learn to walk away from the blogs for days at a time I realized how petty the arguments actually are.

Now, Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.