it's a funny situation...the greater the number of people who disagree with Martin, his attitude and his style, the more combative he gets. It's almost as if he equates all these negative posts with persecution of Jews in general. I wish I knew...(and I wish HE knew!)

To Martin: You arrived here as a 'guest', making crude remarks and insulting people from the beginning, and after you 'joined', you just got worse. What you do is different in kind and different in degree than others who sometimes push the envelope in their remarks, and THEY have been edited and/or deleted at times. It is amazing to me that you have been given as much slack as you have. I do not know why anyone feels the need to make the remarks you have usually, with little or no provocation. You know enough about music and other stuff, (even hot dog styles), to be a useful, but opinionated member, but you persist in seeing if you can set new records for being offensive. I guess you managed, and you are seeing what happens when you act up on someone else's turf, no matter HOW righteous you feel. Not much else to say...

to everyone else...ESPECIALLY anonymous guests who seem to delight in responding to Martin: You are not helping by giving him ammunition for more remarks. Some of the responses TO Martin are ripe for censorship themselves! Give it a rest and let him dig himself in deeper, if that's what he's bound to do!

I sure wish I knew how to get EVERYONE to see what this all looks like and just play nicely together, but the Age of the Internet has done strange things to our ways of relating, hmmm?