If you are referring specifically to JEs from the two who are busy talking about me in one of their own JEs, I find one of the two authors to be quite amusing, and the other author to be an unfortunate bellwether of the current state of partisanship.

I understand that to have more to do with cars being safer than anything else. Anti lock brakes and air bags are now standard in the overwhelming majority of cars on American roads today, amongst other things.

If we're talking over the same period of time (30 years as you said earlier) it is impossible for them not to. There were quite nearly zero cell phones in 1985. We now regularly have serious - and sometimes fatal - accidents caused by idiots who believe they can safely read and write text messages on their phones while driving. It appears you are looking at the general downward trend of fatal accidents per capita, and then saying that nothing could possibly have a negative impact on that. That simply doesn't work.

How exactly am I able to be a "cyber-bully" to you when you don't allow me to comment in your journal entries? For that matter, nobody forces you to read anything I write, ever. You are free to ignore everything I have ever written.

I am not aware of any interaction we have ever had online that was not on slashdot, ever. Furthermore there is a feature on slashdot that you can use to receive a message any time anyone on your friends list posts a JE. Hence your "stalker" allegation falls completely flat.

Wait, who is the bully here?

Where do I lie about you on slashdot? Your writings support the hypothesis much better that you are a fake conservative, posting fact-free nonsense to make real conservatives look absurd, then do they the opposite.

No, I don't believe you. I have believed pretty well nothing you have ever written here to be an accurate portrayal of your beliefs. That is why I find you so entertaining.

However, you are good for a few minutes (at most) of entertainment a week. You're not nearly entertaining enough to warrant a long car drive or an airplane ride.

This doesn't seem like it would have been that difficult to test, but there is no indication that anyone who read it has done so yet.

If that were the case, then why would the gag order be lifted now when the trial doesn't begin until September? And if the gag order was lifted, then why did they only go to a deeply partisan "news" source, rather than using a respectable source? I understand that all conservatives are under orders from on high to trash the NYT at every possible opportunity, but there are respectable news sources that lean conservative.

You use that term, but you don't know what it actually means. The context in which you used it demonstrates that quite clearly.

It would appear then that the term "senior Democrats" has a different meaning to you than it does to me, then. Also interesting how much different your application of "senior" is when the party in question is Democrat rather than Republican.

It really is overwhelming to try to keep up with how rapidly you change the English language at your whim.

Is there an error in that statement?

But we can run with this. Show me, how are senior Democrats in Wisconsin connected to this? If it were going the other way, with republicans being alleged of "going after" democrats, you would say they were "rogue agents" or "bad actors". You have already convinced yourself that these are party officials, and I'm still waiting for you to connect it to President Lawnchair.

That is the allegation so far. This is why there will be a court hearing, to determine how much of a gap exists between reality and perception.

One thing I find interesting in this is the timing. If this really happened that long ago (in political time) why did they wait this long to start screaming about it? This seems like another "October surprise".