Thank you, Gargoyle. Peace offering gratefully accepted. I thought you got rather harshly treated in that other thread (I came back to it after things had settled down a bit and didn't want to stir things up again). I'm sure you weren't intending to imply that the woman wasn't worthy of consideration here; you were just striking a blow for thread purity, but it's a lost cause. The threads have evolved into a social organism as well as an informational one. The Digital Tradition is still vibrant and possessed of a voracious appetite, and you do a great job of feeding it.

I actually enjoy about 90 percent of the exchanges we have--the long term argument we have over Pacifica vs its member stations, for example. We are on opposite sides of the question (unless you're just playing devil's advocate for the sake of a fight) and I'm enjoying that one, and I'll have to admit I enjoy twisting your tail from time to time. There are some ways you have of expressing yourself and some attitudes that really piss me off, and obviously lots of others as well, and I hope you can contain them.

My peace offering to you is my reassurance that I will try always to be as respectful of you as I would like you to be of me and of others here, and that I will come to your defense when I feel others are unjustly vilifying you. I know I'm asking more of you than I can offer in return, but I think that you'll find others to be as receptive of peace offerings and as willing to reciprocate them as I am.

Now can I come to your session?

--seed