One of the things I like about this site is that it is humorous, satirical and light, even if it is a bit conservative. I did try and step back a few times and ask if we had to be so personal or serious about the the ongling debate.

I got my answer. In spades.

you are a true Evander Holyfield of the blogosphere! You got me on points and now I have a cut above my right eye…

But at least I know what kind of folks I am dealing with here. If my facts are fucked or my logic is inconsistent, then call me on it. When it comes down to personal digs, then I can only shake my head and wonder…and what I wonder I will keep to myself because i don’t see the point of spewing it here.

1) You threw out even more outrageous claims when confronted on your original statements with facts.
2) You changed the subject as soon as you realized you had been called out on the factual inaccuracies you presented.
3) You then presented, as yet another change of subject, information of a personal nature that looked like you were making an emotional appeal for sympathy instead of a reasoned factual point.
4) You then made statements about apologies you claimed to have rendered (again, in a obviously passive-aggressive emotional plea of victimhood) that you in fact never made in a medium that can be instantly checked.

All of these things, while certainly ‘argumentative’, had nothing ‘friendly’ about them. You have been transparently dishonest and incompetently manipulative throughout this entire discussion.

That approach will win few friends and little sympathy from anybody anywhere.

Well, ignoring, for a moment, the fact that that’s not an apology, where did you even say that? My point is, you are still making stuff up, even in a thread where it can be obviously checked! And you just did it again, just now!

Man, this has got to be one of the few ‘boxing-rings’ where the gut keeps trying to punch the fist…

you’re right, I said “excuse me” and not “I offer my humble apologies”. And this is not a place where people hang out and have a friendly argument, it is a boxing ring. So I guess I should thank you for the gut-punches.