In retrospect, I am sorry for putting in a brief two cents which appear to have mutated into a Nathan Freeburg-esque THREE CENTS overnight. I hope that people don't regard me as some sort of creepy Savonrola simply because I don't think the post was a very bright thing to emit. I never claimed that the people who created it were evil or reprobate, or should suffer ANY sort of penalty although in the swirl of battle with the likes of te Devil Himself, :-) it's easy to understand how people could think that. People have even slammed me for admitting that off-color, gross humor can be entertaining! I guess I have to be Oh and to the guy that wants me to post specific instances of over the line intolerant behavior which, objectively there are over a dozen really raw examples (I keep a diary)? The reason that I don't and will not is that, I view this as a forum for discussing---if quite badly---ideas and events, and not for lining up lynch posses and creating vendettas. I realized that when I put my name on this thingy, I would be causing myself toruble down the line, because r-a-c-e is one of those issues where, heck, even a post can get you strung up. And I don't regard the people who said noxious things as horrible Trolls-just misguided souls or people with odd senses of humor. I KNOW Fabio Juliano, for chrissakes. I let particular instances go, and certainly wouldn't want people to go confronting their "perpetrators", which we all know would happen. You may regard that as an evasion of responsibility for broaching an inflammatory issue and then not 'following up', but raising the issue was ALL that I wanted to do---not raising the dead. P.S. I think that Nathan Freeburg is one of the most bright and interesting fellows on the circuit, and wasn't trying to put him down in my intro. and now... Play Ball, everybody!
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