Thanks, gargoyle and others. I went back and read the entire threads on Dylan/AIDS, Intellectual Property, and the "COURAGE" series, and, as I told seed on the "Good News" thread, I just don't know who was offended by what. I wanted to apologize as others have done above, but I'm really not sorry for anything I said on any of these. Need time to think. Don't want to be a pariah but, for example, when I'm together in person with close friends, we might call each other worse than smartass and bastard, and everybody understands the good nature underlying, but here, in a sense, I'm writing to a monitor screen and I have to assume that people mean what they say when it really sounds like it.

Thanks again, Chet