Nice post, jade. ;-)

Amos, your complaints about my style are not justified, and I'll tell you why. The only reason I came into this thread...as I have explained again and again and again...is that certain people on it were personally attacking other posters in what I consider an immoderate and unreasonable fashion. That's it. Period. That's why I started posting here.

Then I got to talking about some other things that interested me as well.

Whenever I see people perched high on the pillar of their own smug self-righteousness and using it to personally attack other people and call them things like an "anti-semite", a "commie", a "homophobe", a "sexist" and other personally damning terms of the present political era like that, I don't like it. It reminds me of the behaviour of a lynch mob or a bunch of witch burners. Even if it's in a good cause....I still don't like it. And I will toss humorous barbs at people who do it because I'd like to puncture their little vainglorious ego balloons.

You, of course, think your own conduct is of the best...so does Don...and you think that mine is lacking in some way. Well, that's the world, isn't it? We all believe that our own conduct is quite appropriate. Everyone's like that. And yet we're all different... ;-) So one can expect these differences of opinion about whose conduct is most appropriate, no matter what is going on.

But you won't hear me call you or anyone else here an anti-semite, a homophobe, a commie, a sexist or any other term like that. And if you do catch me doing that, then toss a humorous barb my way, because I will deserve it.