I've been sort of disturbed--well, not real disturbed--that lately, since the end of the Democrat presidential primaries, Primitives of Prominence appear on Skins's island less and less, being overtaken rather much by (a) the unterprimitiven, the lynch mob and (b) new members, about half of whom seem to be moles.
The case of Pedro Picasso seems an exception; as most know here, Pedro Picasso ("Atman") took a regular job some several weeks ago, and mentioned on Skins's island he'd be posting less there, because his boss suggested his showing up on Skins's island might irritate or antagonize some "clients," most of them left-wing Democrat candidates for one office or another.
As a digression, one wonders why that is; why a liberal Democrat candidate for some office would worry about someone working for him being around Skins's island. If I were working for a conservative Republican candidate for some office, and mentioned this place, the "client" would say, yeah, sure, that's a great idea, do more of it.
One wonders why that is. Or perhaps one does not wonder.
Anyway, so Pedro Picasso switched to posting early in the morning and late at night. One assumes he was posting late at night from home. The "early in the morning" thing is more difficult to discern, one not knowing his starting time for work, but one suspects Pedro Picasso was posting at the beginning of the day of work, just before the lady with the metal cart stacked with cardboard flats of mailing inserts came to his table.
But then the "early in the morning" posting more or less stopped. The scuttlebutt given a certain, uh, supermole on Skins's island from other primitives is that Pedro Picasso got yelled at by his boss; he's not supposed to be watching CNN and hanging around Skins's island--he's paid to stuff envelopes for mass mailing, not this.
So that explains the diminishment of Pedro Picasso on Skins's island.
However, there's a great many more Primitives of Prominence who haven't posted lately, or are posting less and less.
I always wondered if places such as P-J Comix's most excellent DUmmie FUnnies on freepublic, or the "Best/Worst of DU" forum on conservativeunderground, and this place, sort of intimidated the primitives. The primitives take themselves seriously, and don't like being laughed at, even when utterly comical.
Does one suppose the primitives are dissauded by the laughter and scorn of decent and civilized people?
It would be nice if this were true, that the primitives felt intimidated because they're forced to look at themselves in the mirror, but if the primitives feel intimidated, I don't think that's the reason.
If the primitives in fact feel intimidated, I suspect it's because they imagine a fist or something will come crashing through the monitor of their computers, into their faces.
Stupid primitives.
