CARLHAYDEN has been gone for awhile

[minionofmidas]

Health permitting (he's an old; I've no clue how old) he'll be back, no worries.

[minionofmidas]

Robert Stark > CARLHAYDEN

At least Stark was hilarious. CARL has about as much personality as one of the characters in Zero Dark Thirty.

This is wrong. He didn't show it often, but Carl had an extra dry sense of humour.

[minionofmidas]

CARL's diplomatic skills were the null set. Even when on occasion something he said might have some substantive merit (and often it didn't), he phrased things in the most provocative manner possible to try pick a fight. I don't miss him.

I did get a chuckle that he kept calling me a "liberal" however. If I am a "liberal," just what does that make a majority of the forum, or at least a substantial plurality of it?

Democrats? You're a poster child codger for Liberalism. If you use the correct application of the term.