Carl, I'm offended by your apology, what now? ;-)
I too would like to apologize. Of all the things wrong in our world, and don't get me wrong, I still see so much that is positve, but of all that is amiss in our modern culture, the current state of political correctness drives me nuts. People are way too easily offended in our society. That being said, I fully understand the danger of faceless communications, like web forums and blogs, and I have been the indirect target of numerous flat out falsehoods, posted as truth, on some forum or blog. Seeing as how I respect this place, Alembic.com, so much, I never initiate any controversial threads. But when I see stuff posted, well, let's just say I went to great lengths to tone down my responses. As I often remind my boss, well yes, that's what came out of my mouth, but you should've heard what I didn't say. The problem for me is, that for the last eight years, I have, in the interest of self preservation, had to suppress an astronomical degree of frustration, anger, disillusionment, disbelief, and sadness, just to make it through every day. I don't think I realized just how much I was suppressing until last night. It's everything I can possibly do to keep from bursting joyful noise from every pore. I can only imagine this must be what it feels like to have terminal cancer go into remission. That's how big it feels, to me, right now.
So while it's true that my recent posts may not be in line with the letter of the law here, in a day or two, I'll come back down, and return to posting about Wishbasses, or how I love my set neck Epic, as much as any Series owner loves their bass. Until then, just cut me a little slack, CAUSE I'M FREAKING OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Always proud to be an American, not always proud of all Americans, JBY
