I don't know my mushrooms. My blue-ringer history is best left in the past, and I just blindly eat whatever sliced mushrooms are on sale at Safeway.

So, when you're asking G if he's a vegetarian, is it because: A) You're considering sharing a recipe involving meat? B) These 'shrooms have some sort of basic Nervous System, or C) you want to warn him not to accidentally eat any spiders or aphids which might be hiding out in the fungus.

Damn the United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States again!
Philip Nolan, the man without a country

Then I would throw in a little fresh thyme, and a couple of eggs and scramble them. Not too many eggs, because you really want to taste the chantrelles. OR... What Deb said, except with thyme, then I would add chicken broth and milk, half and half or whipping cream, depending on how fat you think you are, for a cream of chantrelle soup. Maybe with a little sherry. OR... what Deb said, but with a little thyme or maybe sage, and then add some toasted bread cubes, and stuff it into a chicken and roast it. Chantrelle stuffing.... yum.

I couldn't possibly have underlined my point as effectively as you just did. Boy, isn't this fun?

My observation may be wrong.

But I believe the Entire Structure of olyblog greatly perpetuates attacks against people.  Its not the individual docents personality, its the "personality" of the way olyblog is structured, so i hope thats not taken too rudely.  One of the numerous reasons facebook and myspace have become so popular is because they allow people to control who is going to comment on your blog entries, thus they allow bloggers to write entries without being attacked.  How can anyone say this is a "community" blog when no community would ever let the same people attack other people repeatedly?

Most folks who read comments here know exactly who the meanest, most frequent posting people are here.  And we know which docents support them or even worse, label the attack a 'stimulating debate' and then turn a blind eye while their friends attack people.  So why can't we have the ability to block the comments of those particular people and the blog administration who let their friends attack people?  There is one main answer: It is not at all an accident that the entire structure of olyblog perpetuates attacks.

Same thing with the calendar here.  Protest.net and Craiglist have by far some of the world'd most famous online calendars, and I don't think that would ever be the case if people had to worry about comments and attacks actually attached to each and every event that they list.  You try to list a nice event here and what happens?  People place mean comments on it.  So when other people go read your event, they also have to read all the mean comments too.  And you wonder why more people won't post events here?  At Oly-Attack-Central?

But here, much like several people have already said, the same old folks and some of them administration attack you repeatedly and they make comments like olyblog "is really working" and is really helping people.  Yes, its "working" for people who love to attack others.  I've seen people post some quality writing here and before I can even digest what I've read the same people pounce all over them.  Ever watch a National Geographic video of piranhas in a frenzy devouring something in the water?  And you know even if you were there you'd be helpless to do anything because you'd get eaten alive too?  Thats what its like watching someone place an article or event onto olyblog with the regular attack-squad swoop in to devour someone, and the administration here throws in extra meat into the pool every now and then like 'what an interesting conversation' while an attack is taking place in front of them.  Are we really expected to go to them to ask for it tobe deleted?

For those folks this is the place to be.  The only reason I post this is because:

*For the first time I have noticed a lot of people speak out against these attacks
*I have come to realize that there is a still a large percentage of people who are also tired of being attacked and maybe there are one or two docents who might change things, because I have noticed there are still one or two docents who don't attack people.

WHo knows,

maybe docents may stop people from attacking their mean comments to the events and articles of others.

Who knows.  Maybe this will be seen as an attack even though its directed at no single person and I posted it to an open thread.  I'd honestly just like to see some changes so that the attacks stop.  Its my thought that an end to such attacks would be good.

But,
My Observation May be wrong