Don Firth,

The parallels are not obvious. You are talking about private entertainment in people's homes, this is a public forum for discussion of folk and blues music (purportedly). The "parallel" doesn't work.

Kat,

I presume from your message at 3:26p.m. that you disagree with my opinions. Can you explain how two people having different opinions makes one of them duplicitous and manipulative, but the other not?

I have strong opinions, and I articulate them pretty well. That just makes me a half-decent writer. Which, incidentally, has nothing to do with a Mudcat identity either.