[Devil_Anse]

nicely honed facade

What a weird mixed metaphor. Stick with cooking; you're better at it.

As for supposed "patting each other on the back," you're projecting again. You don't pat anyone on the back?

You can knock yourselves out as apologists for Ricci, but in the end, whether he did this or not, you will not have accomplished enough to counterbalance his previous 29 years of his pathetic, wasted life.

[varina davis]

nicely honed facade What a weird mixed metaphor. Stick with cooking; you're better at it.

I'm excellent at both.