Am I the only person who sees the irony in awarding another poster an award for posts with personal attacks, and naming the award after a
Alex,
I have apologized for my personal attacks on Mike. I realize that calling him names was wrong and only degraded my own reputation here on EM. So be it.
Having said that, I think I have the right to point out what Mike has said in the past and has never apologized for. Indeed, I see that even within the last few hours he has posted another message justifying his routine disrespectful replies to several participants here, including me. What is becoming abundantly clear is that Mike honestly believes that his own intellectual "superiority" justifies or excuses his appalling arogance and rudeness.
Suppose you were walking down the street minding your own business and you were assualted. You fight back, then the police come along and see two people fighting. What can they do but break it up and take your word against the other guy's as to who started it. But what if the other guy has a track record of assaulting others and you don't. Well, Mike clearly has a track record of routinely insulting others here, but I have never deliberately insulted anyone here on EM other than Mike.
Mike has posted lie after lie about me. Then he accuses me of posting lies about him, which I have never done. A few weeks ago he was caught red-handed in a bald-faced lie claiming that I had tried to falsely take credit for originating DMC/RAV. The archive shows clearly that he was completely wrong. Did he apologize? Of course not. He claimed it was jutst an "honest" mistake. Ya, right.
He's still claiming that I'm "hurt" because he "forced" me to remove his material from my website. That's two lies rolled into one. First, he had no right to demand that I remove anything from the site (not to mention that he has absolutely no way to "force" me to remove anything, of course). Second, I voluntarily removed most of his stuff because a lot of it was wrong, unimportant, or poorly explained (his bogus definition of CC is a classic example).
So my little mock award was an attempt to make a point. I insulted Mike by simply posting a sample of his arrogant garbage. What does it tell you when you can insult someone by simply quoting him?
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