Teribus, the post from me on the Arafat thread that you call a personal attack on you, was indeed me ripping you a new asshole. And you deserved it. It was in response to a personal attack from you on my integrity. You did something similar on another thread where the subject of DU is being discussed. And you did it again with this paragraph in your 13 Mar 03 - 08:21 AM post on this thread:

There appears to be a tendency on your part with regard to two particular subjects where you are completely incapable of standing back and looking at those subjects from different angles - one side is totally wrong and the other is totally right. This approach to any discussion is ridiculous and displays a bigotry that should be self evident.

I notice that when you are losing a debate, you resort to personal attacks. Most of the time, I can see this behavior for what it is, and respond accordingly. Yesterday I didn't do that. Do I think it was a mistake? Probably not. But I think in the future I'll take personal attacks from you as a sign that you are losing the debate, and I'll just stick to using facts to make my arguments.