"Doesn't Blogspot look so much sharper than JU?"

"I've been impressed with the features of this website -- it's light years ahead of what I've been using in terms of ease of editing and fun stuff."

"It runs a lot faster than the JU forums, too."

"I just left a blog site that, like the United States is governed by an out-of-touch rich man, controlled by a conservative elite, and possessed of only one or two voices of moderation and compassion. People who don't toe the party line there are ridiculed and smeared; character assassination at its finest."

"They lob insults like grenades and the lurkers wait around like suicide bombers looking for an opening. Troops are marshalled, sides are taken, and the winners gloat and the losers sit and snipe from a distance. Loyalties are tested and the rhetoric gets less and less tolerant and more extreme."

"By the time I dealt with the flamers at the last site I blogged at, I originally jumped to the bait and then decided it just wasn't worth the effort. It's like the old saying, 'What if they held a war and nobody came?'"