I had my own little prediction about what would happen in the recent split: I expected the HATE thread would start off with a surge and burn out early, while the LOVE thread would end up with the most comments by endurance. Boy, was I wrong. The two threads were neck-and-neck in commenting frequency through most of their lifespans, until last night when the LOVE thread petered out while the HATE thread got all fired up. Final scores: HATE, 702 comments; LOVE, 434 comments.

It just goes to show that if love and hate go to war, hate will kick love’s butt.

But still, we need to bring everyone back together, because I’m not going to maintain two everlasting threads all the time. Group hug, everyone! Lovers and haters all together now! We need ’em both, lovers to bring the lube and haters to bring the spice.

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The everlasting community thread is getting fractious and ugly: the prolonged association is beginning to chafe, I think. So as an experiment I’m temporarily splitting the thread.

This is the LOVE subthread. Be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes. No mellow-harshing talk allowed here; if you must, take it to the HATE thread.

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The everlasting community thread is getting fractious and ugly: the prolonged association is beginning to chafe, I think. So as an experiment I’m temporarily splitting the thread.

This is the HATE subthread. If there’s something you want to get off your chest, if there’s someone who has annoyed you, if you just want to make an angry howl of annoyance, this is the place to vent. No nicey-nice talk, either, just be brutal to one another within these confines. Can’t handle it? Go to the LOVE thread.

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While the nattering thread natters on, Jewish comedians are busily designing the next generation of gods.

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You’ll want to watch this a few times, denizens of the thread infinitely prolonged — it’s subtle and potent.

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I just know participants in the indeterminately long conversation would never stoop to the kind of conversation common among people like Rush Limbaugh.

Oh, no, the far right isn’t a collection of racist, bigoted pigs. No sir!

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People keep sending this to me, and I listened to it once — and that was enough. But it keeps piling up in my mailbox! Maybe if I inflict it on the tortuous thread, it will stop.

Although it does have some virtues: technically, it’s well done within the conventions of country music, and the two vocalists are representative of the teabaggers.

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How long can the immortal thread go on? It probably won’t have the longevity of this piece of music, composed in about 1400BCE, and preserved in cuneiform for 3400 years.

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Hang on there, reincarnating the reborn thread always gives me a sense of deja vu. I’m sure, somewhere in its past lives, it was an Egyptian Pharaoh, anyway.

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I survived the 70s, threadkiddies, but then I discovered that vestiges of it still lurk on evangelical television. Hey, in the 70s we had the excuse that everyone making children’s television was baked to the gills — what is Psalty’s excuse?

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