Larry, I have NEVER called anyone, no matter how greatly provoked and insulted myself, a "piece of filth" or "fucking evil"—even when I have been called such things. And have had certain people try to undercut my credibility by telling vicious lies about me by putting together the few things they think they know about me, along with lavish use of their own vividly sleazy imaginations.

In fact, compared to some here, I think I have been a paragon of restraint.

It's too bad that one cannot seem to have a reasonable debate about issues of importance without some people immediately abandoning reason in favor of trying to "kill the messenger" by lapsing into profanity and verbal abuse, and/or throwing some meaningless label, such as "so-called 'liberal.'"

But then, the reason some people can't stick to the point is that their OWN understanding of the issue is either vague at best, or based on what they want to be the case.

Don Firth