[shibumi]

I choose my words carefully.

"You would do well to recall the words of Ayn Rand, ..."

That is clearly not an assumption that you had not read the book.

Read my second sentence. I studiously avoided calling you names. I suggest that you should consider the substance of what I said about the enemy, not what you think I may have said about you.

[Xenalyte]

My apologies for overreacting. I am a bit het up from another thread on which it was said outright that women have no business in the oil industry.