Actually, Les, I have said before that my animadversions are not aimed particularly at you, whose comments are reasonable and moderate: I am sorry that you feel that what I have to say about the lefty consensus is a cap which fits you ~~ it is you who have assumed that, not I who have said it.

Yes, Fred, I was referring to your OP on that other thread. Can you really not see the offensiveness of denouncing what you know, & admit, will be of interest and pleasure to most ordinary people, as something that immediately "makes you want to throw up". I am sorry; I think it in the most appalling of taste; patronising; hyperbolical; toffee-nosed & holier-than-thou... It does indeed rattle my cage in the sense of disgusting me profoundly.

But thanks for sharing my moderate description of you as a Gr8 Big Booby with a fine folky audience. Hope you gave me due acknowledgment.

I reciprocate your best wishes, Les; and do genuinely express as much to you, Fred. Hope that won't make you want to throw up...

~Michael~