I was away for a while. I went to Philly for my Mother's retirement luncheon. The pics are posted in the Blogs forum, for those interested.
I see we have a new arrival in The Black Bear. I checked out their website and it doesn't look that bad. Not much traffic, but that will change with word of mouth and all. Still, it has potential. I would recommend that TBB (I won't get into the whole '3rd person jokes' area) learn to live and let live. I know you have ideas, but all you can do is propse them and see what happens. If they don't go over, no big deal. Shouting down people who don't agree with you won't get it done. Ask any number of RJ/Flutie bashers, Bledsoe bashers, and various others. No one likes the "my opinion is THE opinion" mentality, hence the resistance. It has NOTHING to do with any festering hatred (by the way, you shouldn't hate) for you as you haven't been around long enough to be hated by anyone here. Just play nice and try to get along with the other kids in the sandbox.