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it's normal. so much for liberty, freedom or whatever.

If you view his latest comments which I mention here, you can see he's still about those things. Just not here, apparently. :(

Maybe he's not going that far. I'd rather sit on all the drama, squashing it, and give a good wait and see approach. He strikes me as quite brilliant, my guess is he's already onto a new big plan . In the meantime cap'n Ned seems quite talented in guiding the ship towards its desired end.
I'm in it for the long haul. I love the creativity I've found here. It's fun and inspiring.