Agaain: my suggestion -- which you may certainly feel free to accept or ignore, either way, as best pleases you -- is that we agree to disagree on the matter. (It's certainly not something I'm terribly interested in debating over, absent a decree from the mods either way.)
Now: let's shake hands, FReeper to FReeper, and find other, better things with which to amuse ourselves. ;)
Ah, well, and I will continue to ask people to avoid giving Peggy hits, in particular. She caused me some very bad problems this election cycle and embarrassed me deeply on a personal level. People like Brooks, Noonan, etc need to learn that most of their writings were previously consumed by people like you and me, people who they scarcely give credit for even basic literacy.