[BunnySlippers]

The personal attacks were first and most often from the hang-Westerfield side. After a while the "presume him innocent and prove him guilty beyond any reasonable doubt" crowd, on account of and in response to having suffered incessant barrages of personal attacks, became extra wary of any Westerfield is guilty poster and took to preemptive strike first and ask questions later tactics. Now it is close to a balance of terror, but the hang 'im high crowd has been favored by local moderators, and many due process zealots have moved on.

Wrong.

Just this morning one of the Westerfield groupies called Kim a "cretin".

Your side seems to relish this sort of attack.

[bvw]

Tell Kim that I already have a "Cretin" award named after me. I am not willing to share the Title.

... Being called cretin is not so funny. But what is the best response? Generally I look to Winston Churchill for advice in being rejected. He would say .... well what he would say is pretty obvious and I'm not doing him any honor by repeating it in this present context. That's my advice.

And here's my own advice: Hang in there. Do what you think is right, but avoid worrying about any conspiracies against you. Bop if banged and bang if bopped. Don't save up any bops and bangs for later use -- they don't age well at all. And you don't have to bop or bang back when banged or bopped a lot of times. Don't send someone else to do your bopping or banging for you. If you can't do it yourself, don't bother at all.

This is a ramble, I'm up too late.