On the other hand, the ones I think of are of a more sinister cut, ones landing on threads with a solid inflexible agenda, set to throw their words only as weapons, and are blinded to any forms of logic. They arrived here to attack and destroy, only, and to wash right over any reasoned responses in return. In those cases, they came as envoys from a darker source, inflexible in their quests. Bat down one of these critters and another pops up. Like homicide bombers and kamikaze, the puppeteers finally exhaust their supply of clowns.
Perhaps we can recognize the bone yard, to which these many have gone. Happily as they exposed themselves, our Management has put them where they belong.
Maybe you aren't reading my mind :-) :-)
Anyway, I appreciate the compliment and return it. You are a gentleman. The whole idea of forum, I trust, is people being able to exchange views amicably, or at least without flaming. All discussions should be at the level of ideas, not personalities; the sin, not the sinner. The poster who strays into personal comments has -- knowingly or not -- admitted that he has no argument. He has given up and can contribute nothing to grown-up discussion. Needless to say, this happens here with monotonous regularity. But one has to expect it, our visitors have had their heads filled with mush by the media.
As we note from time to time, people who call other people names are announcing that they have no facts or arguments to offer. They may as well be looking in a mirror when they spout off. What they say about others is what they themselves are guilty of.