Lawry, your name-calling style _belies_ your self-proclaimed interpersonal and communication skills. If you would have these skills indeed, you could have expressed criticism of me _without_ resorting to insults and personal humiliation.
In fact, very few of the countless individuals from all stripes that I have been communicating with on international lists over the years, descended to your style of character-assassination while dodging the issues at hand. And the very few who did, at least didn't boast about their interpersonal and communication skills. Concerning your comments on "the [sic!] Swiss": It's so generous that you don't extend your vilifications of me to all my fellow citizens. But if you indeed have "dozens of close Swiss friends", I do wonder why you were so uninformed about the history of Geneva and Switzerland and about the Swiss health-care system. Perhaps that was just another unfounded boast of yours. Considering your style, it may indeed be best to ignore you. Fortunately there are others on this list who actually have to say something (and happen to assess my intelligence differently). Chris