patches023 has a point. Alot folks look to you for your opinions because of your knowledge and skilled research. It's time you put those skills into researching effective action and response.
If anyone can find out who the *right* people to write to, complain to, lobby, fund, volunteer for, etc are, it's you.
Your next assignment: find out who gets results for positive change and post it here in your journal. I look forward to you results.
Where are your journal entries about what you think D'Glenn ought to be writing about? Oh, you have other stuff you're writing about? Other stuff you're working on? Other ways you're giving back? That's great.
It's very hard not to read these kinds of follow-ups as "It's time you put those skills into my priorities! I don't care what else you're working on or dealing with!"
If you were trying to go for "encouraging" rather than "scolding", it got lost in the mail.
There is a logical fallacy called "ad-hominem", which basically means that "there is something wrong with what you claim because there is something wrong with you". Despite their popularity, those arguments are a lot more fragile than they seem.
You made some claims about D'Glenn's abilities and your abilities, which I did not dispute.
Ad hominem doesn't come into it, but I can see why you might wish to believe that I was snarking on your claims rather than your tone and subsequent commands.
My research chops are more impressive when I have a better grasp of the problem domain going in. In many ways I feel like I'm in over my head here. (As I once remarked about navigating a bureaucratic process: "It's not like it's rocket science; if it were rocket science I'd understand it.")
Fortunately there are folks on my friends list who do know where to look and what to look for in this. I'll comb the last few weeks worth of friends' entries and gather some URLs, but in the meantime I strongly suggest reading twistedchick's journal. While you and I know her as a cellist, she's got a background in journalism and is significantly better at research in the field of politics than I am.
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If anyone can find out who the *right* people to write to, complain to, lobby, fund, volunteer for, etc are, it's you.
Your next assignment: find out who gets results for positive change and post it here in your journal. I look forward to you results.
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It's very hard not to read these kinds of follow-ups as "It's time you put those skills into my priorities! I don't care what else you're working on or dealing with!"
If you were trying to go for "encouraging" rather than "scolding", it got lost in the mail.
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Ad hominem doesn't come into it, but I can see why you might wish to believe that I was snarking on your claims rather than your tone and subsequent commands.
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Fortunately there are folks on my friends list who do know where to look and what to look for in this. I'll comb the last few weeks worth of friends' entries and gather some URLs, but in the meantime I strongly suggest reading