I suppose that you are right in the sense that this is a limited audience with a certain demographic. But I've always considered these discussions as exemplary of a larger discussion going on in households around the country.

If you are satisfied that the discussions here aren't worthy of much personal investment because they are only "coupon boards," that's just fine.

As far as "venom," that will come at a later day, when hopefully this administration nominates a true liberal visionary, when all the conservatives will wring their shirts over issues that are flat out inconsequential, and I will blast them with my mighty laser vision of true blue velocity of righteousness.

I don't actually have "venom." I do have impatience. It is hard to watch people get their drawers in a knot over inconsequential things.

So, maybe we are a coupons board. Not much reason to pay attention to what anyone says, by that reasoning, because we are only a coupons board.

But, even on a coupons board, I feel free to say that those of you who are getting your drawers all knotted up are engaging in an exercise of futility. If that is how you want to spend your time, so be it. But I find it utterly stupid, and I feel free to say so.

But you don't have to pay much attention to what I say, because, after all, it is only a coupons board.