(Sorry for the off-topic post, but...)

Oh, stop wagging your finger at me, Mick. You expected nothing less. I told you before, continue to persecute GUESTs, and I'll continue to defend them. If you were the crusader for truth that you claim to be, you'd be out there pointing out what you think is "bullshit" in the posts of pretty much everyone. But you don't. You focus on one GUEST, one who happens to be anonymous (which you irrationally fear), and one who happens to loudly support a presidential candidate who is a real threat to the firmly-entrenched machine Democrats and political hacks (read: you) that have run the Democratic party into the rut of mediocrity it's now embedded in. That's cool that you disagree. Argue about it, call names, whatever. But you take it one step further: you bully. You use your position of limited authority, and your (admittedly well-earned) respected status to browbeat GUESTs into submission. Whether or not this GUEST is a female or not (never inquired as it's, yanno, none of my fucking business), you believe that s/he is. Why are you so obsessed with this one woman? And why do you feel the need to dominate her?

And keep making those false claims about me posting anonymously. Last time you did that, you went home crying with your pants around your ankles after I'd had my figurative way with you. I don't feel the need to extract another of your back-handed apologies, so let's not go through the motions.

And why on Earth are you dragging the fine people of Crete into this?

Doug: "Stirring the pot" is a negative thing? What do you think you do, when you air your conservative Republican views in a forum dominated by "liberals?" You "stir the pot," and stimulate conversation. When you (and the other two or so conservative types) express your hugely unpopular views, you're adding life to what would otherwise be a stale conversation between a bunch of boring old hippies patting each other on the back. And this doesn't make you a "troll." It makes you a participant. Same with GUEST. If you or s/he were to just throw a thread out there saying, for instance, "Lepus is a fag," just to maliciously provoke an argument, that would be trolling. GUEST's posts are consistent, expressing what are obviously his/her own opinions. S/he takes part in the ensuing discussions, with posts that even his/her nemesis Big Mick has admired. So be glad, as I am, that you, GUEST, and others are here to "stir the pot." And pray that the GUEST-haters never decide to turn on members like you. :)

---Lepus Rex