who actually pay attention to what is happening in the world. We look back and see our mistakes, but not our successes. I go through the same process periodically when I am in bed and my brain wishes to re-play my Top 100 Greatest Failures.

I grok your pain.

have to dig up old threads for people with "imperfect" recollections of the past. Certain people/topics will get mentioned, leading to a flair up and a dusting off of old posts to remind folk who said what when.

Occasionally, I go back in to dig up a humorous or useful post, most recently one on Terri Schiavo.

While still speaking to fundie family I always used "Jesus Christ on a trailer hitch" then gave them this picture mailed once most often by email several days later.

Salvation is upon us, surely.

The hitch image is a minor DU classic that I thought was worth resurrecting.

rebuttal to the lies, misinformation, and talking points of the day. I posted it to be helpful, and got into a VERY heated discussion with a DUer who insisted that Ms. Schiavo could undergo neurogenesis and "get better".

It is always disheartening to find someone impervious to fact on your own team.

Now I'm about to graduate with my MSSW

Cool to look back. Also embarrassing to read what I wrote as a kid.

Then again I'm often embarrassed by what I write the next day.

you ALWAYS look back at what you said/did and cringe. I am pondering having "What was I thinking" tattooed to the palm of my hand.