There should be a rule
on commenting protocol
requiring at least
(if not a working knowledge)
mini-common sense.
Every school age child
with a mite’s intelligence
should have learned restraint
in matters of opinion…
at least a few facts.
No one should ever
consider as an expert
smart snappy comments…
an internet free-for-all
sans supervision.
Our Rule Number One:
Start out with a set of clues,
a few question marks,
a reasonably open-mind
and process of thought.
For Rule Number Two,
should be needless to expound,
an unspoken rule–
have proof, or at least
citations of information.
Who, what, when, where, why
How the commenter knows,
…at least Who Said So?
citation of source
and last—Who Cares?
© Sometimes, 2016
SOMETIMES 
Nicely penned
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thanks! I torture myself reading yahoo comments…are those people really idiots or are they just kidding around?
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very lovely shot!!
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oh, the red maple leaves. My camera worked with me this time, I love the color of that tree. The leaves are all in a big soggy mass on the ground now…I need to threaten my son some more to get them out of there before the snow.
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my son is out mowing leaves as we speak here, mulch and fertilizer are good…of course those who have fancy-dancy trimmed yards frown on mowing
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you can’t please everyone
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I haven’t been around much lately, I hate the holiday season…too much bougeois ticky tacky for me ;-)…. that’s the monk in me I guess.
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I hear you
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so many demands…be happy! or else! buy stuff…spend spend spend. If I had money I would be out traveling in a jungle somewhere.
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hey, you don’t need money to walk in a jungle!
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ya need money to get from my house to the jungle…once there there are wild fruits and bugs and stuff to eat, and water dripping off the coffee tree branches. It doesn’t take much to make me happy…always was pretty low maintenance… I do need a new camera though, hoping Santa will bring me one.
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come to think of it a walk in the jungle would be one of the best things I can think of right now…have been in a super slump, and today’s trip was to Walmart to buy a new mixer…talk about from the ridiculous to the sublime! The jungle being the sublime…Walmart is the epitome of bourgeois b.s…..or as someone wrote recently the “booboisie”….I love that to death!
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OK, you need to rob a bank, lady. We need to get you to the jungle! Use your phone for photos.
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my phone is a hunk of junk its not a smart phone. my jungle days are past, alas…
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but you can still rob a bank, right?
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well, I can’t run as fast as I did once, and there is no doubt in my mind that I would get caught and spend the rest of my life in the slammer…or get shot.
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they feed you in jail, you know…and you tats for free
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ouch, too much of a coward for tats, besides the worst downside for me would be getting up at the crack of dawn…I’m no early-riser. 🙂
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for me, it would be the bad chow
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wonder if they have PopTarts…my major food group
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I still haven’t peeked out of the backpack in Bratislavia yet…saving it for a treat. It is the season to be jolly…not so much…which has always been a huge hassle for me.
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last time I went I had to change planes in Detroit, Houston, Mexico City, Chiapas…WAY too much for an old woman. Houston alone gives me chills just thinking about it…brrr
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I was a nomad monk who drove camels
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