Mellower Mansfield Still Passionate

I chuckled (Sunday night) as I was reading through some recent comments on DFO’s Huckleberries Blog . DFO highlighted a post I did in mid-October about the Occupy Wall Street movement. The post was part tongue in cheek, on my part, about a guy who called into KIDO’s The Austin Hill Show and said, ever so strongly, “I want my Bentley “; the post was intended to elicit comment about the OWS movement based on the crazy sound bites that were coming out. So buried within some of the comments by two normally well-written followers of DFO’s blog were a couple lines that said I came off … as a “cranky old guy” and that I suffered from a ‘Generation Gap”. Hmmm. … See, in the past (‘80’s and 90’s) I was a firebrand — looking for a fight and often causing a fight. I was young (in my 30’s and ready to take on the world.) “Fists, guns or knives?” Nah, more like, “pens/paper or keyboards?” And I did… and STILL came away with a “black eye” or two, myself. Since then, my conservative thinking didn’t completely change, but HOW I delivered it eventually did/ Dennis Mansfield . More here.

Question: Have you mellowed much over the years?