I am 10 years younger than you and I, was tempted to advise you that all caps type is the equivalent of yelling on the internet. I learned that at my job a few years back. (I am now retired) It is very difficult to read a comment done in all caps. I tend not to even try sometimes because it is so annoying.

I do appreciate learning what you think on many subjects as you seem well informed and (as O’Reilly says)quite amusingly pithy at times so I don’t mean to put you off by my hopefully helpful comment. You are quite correct that in the larger view, this is a rather trivial issue. However, all caps seem to run together visually on the screen and I can get tired of trying to decipher it all.

Respectfully – Jane M

What Alan K was ever so gently trying to tell you, even offering you the face-saving out that perhaps your keyboard was the problem, was that it is RUDE to use all caps. Like screaming at a dinner party. OFFENSIVE to the other guests. No you don’t get to stand up on the table and throw your shoes down to demonstrate a point that we would otherwise all be too dim to ken out.

And yes, it is important to correct even our elders and betters when their behavior is an embarrassment to themselves and to the rest of us, and highly counterproductive to the civil encounter we generally manage to achieve here across the PJM boards.

Do you get it now?

I’ve often thought about how I would approach an interview with one of the network jerks (or any reporter, for that matter) if I was an elected official. They ask for an interview, I’d say “Sure, as long as we get to video tape the entire thing and post it unedited to the internet, and I get to interview you afterward on camera”. Have a staffer do some research prior to the interview, getting some choice video clips, articles, whatever, that I could throw back in their face on camera. There are too many examples of where they cover something heavily when a Republican is involved and basically ignore it when a Dem is involved (Mark Foley, anyone?). Hell, 10 minutes of research at Newsbusters or the Media Research Center could supply you with enough ammo to embarrass any of them. What I wouldn’t give to see the shoe on the other foot, watching those smarmy, condescending, ass-clowns sit there and squirm while they’re asked uncomfortable questions. I guess I can dream.