Louis wrote: >You may be a great economist, but sometimes you suck >as a moderator.
Respectfully, I have to disagree. Michael is an excellent moderator. Michael does something akin to actual life: keep differing ideas in contact, because there is something that comes out of it that's better than the sectarianism Jim mentioned in a separate thread. I am sure you put me in the same sniper category as Doug. I have accepted that horrible fate. But those two chaps are both better moderators than you. (That is just my opinion, since you have opened up that line of comment.) >This is an utter disgrace that so few people >on pen-l would take a stand against this. "Utter"... these are the kinds of purple prose flourishes that I have privately noted to you that you should lose... Ken. -- All politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Men's Understanding. -- Anthony Ashley Cooper Third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)