Why does it take the death of someone we love to bring DUers

[cboy4]

together as a family for a change?

Were you thinking the same thing also?

Sure, we've been having our differences lately.

And we'll obviously continue to have our differences.

But I think it's nice -- at least for one night -- to not argue and fight as we remember our dear Molly. :) :cry:

[Rex]

1. Family always fights and makes up for it later.

I am stunned about Molly. It won't register with me, I just can't accept it. :cry:

[MadMaddie]

2. This is true.

Rest in Peace Molly Ivans!

[lancdem]

3. It's very nice

[hedgehog]

4. If we didn't argue, this site would be nothing but a big echo chamber.

Just as long as we all remember who the real enemy is.

[elocs]

5. I understand and appreciate the point, and peace would be nice for a night,

but can over 100,000 people ever be considered to be a family? I don't think so. In another day we will be back to tearing each other apart as well as Democratic candidates, all Republicans, and pretty much anybody who does not agree with each of our particular points of view. I am more than a tad cynical, but that is mostly because I can read.

[cboy4]

8. Point well taken, but believe me, there are tens of thousands fewer

members who are truly active posters.

The figure you cite includes everyone from people who were TD'd to those who troll to those who signed up and never came back.

DU is much smaller than it's advertised population of 100,000+

Not that it matters, but it's not as though there are actually six figures worth of people all trying to get along.

[elocs]

9. You are right.

I am betting that the 100,000 number includes people who have never posted as well as those who have died. You can get banned, but you can never voluntarily get off that list. Just think how big this country would be if it included all of the people who died. That makes the number deceptive.

[Nicole]

6. I stand with you

Rest In Peace Molly. :cry:

The last paragraph from her last column, January 11, 2007:

We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. Make our troops know we're for them and trying to get them out of there. Hit the streets to protest Bush's proposed surge. If you can, go to the peace march in Washington on Jan. 27. We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding,
"Stop it, now!"

ETA the link where I found where Molly's last column:

http://www.creators.com/opinion/molly-ivins/stand-up-against-the-surge.html

[texastoast]

7. Something about funerals and weddings

being times to put aside all differences and support each other through grief and oftimes idiocy, respectively. Families are like that.