Have you ever found yourself madly deleting a page long rant in response to some idiotic post on Facebook?
You think to yourself, "I don't really need to say this. It's just going to cause a fight, and while I think *insert name* is generally a great person, exposing their idiocy on this issue is going to do nothing but start a fight. Is that what I really want?"
Because you know that unburdening your psyche will almost undoubtedly end in a fractured relationship with *insert name* and that's not really what you want.

Well, I have been there. I've written LONG responses that end up being deleted upon second thought. I can't even count how many times I've read some post and just went OFF in the comments section, feeling the righteous anger of my response flare like a bonfire in the night (how'dya like that crap metephor, eh? Don't worry, I've got plenty more where that one came from) only to sputter and peter out when I realize the problems my hastily expressed opinion might cause my relationship with so-and-so.

And so...I usually keep quiet. When someone posts something on facebook or twitter or wherever, that REALLY riles me up...I quietly steam to myself, stomp around and declare the folly of man at the top of my lungs, and then sit in a corner of my mind and chew that stinking bone all day long, fuming over every response I could have given. Wishing that I had the guts to say all that I wanted to say.

I'm done with that.

If I'm going to grab the bone of contention, I'm going to pick that sucker dry. I need to let all those roiling thoughts out of my head.

This is going to be my platform to blast my opinion about WHATEVER is rolling around in my noggin. The point isn't to hurt feelings, or offend. The point is to vent and get things off my chest. However...my blog. My opinion. Too bad for you. Because I said so. Finders keepers and all that.