I tell you again, Greg: I take no specific stand on that issue. But I don't think Lady Thatcher would ever have referred to Silas, e.g., had she had occasion to do so, in terms analogous to those he sees fit to use of her. How does it advance anyone's argument to assume that all right-thinking people must so necessarily be on their side that it is OK to use terms like 'hatchet-faced bitch' of anyone whom the Consensus, in all its self-righteous certainty of moral virtue and correctness of opinion, happens to disapprove of.

Hatchet-faced whatever-the-male-equivt-of-bitch-might-be right back to you, Silas ~ & I hope it keeps fine for you.

~M~