The issue has spilled over to Lisa Slater-Nichols blog.Just for clarity: the initial comment on that blog was there before Tracy started this thread.
It has to be said because "spilled over" might tend to imply that this negativity started here, which is what certain detractors (not you) like to suggest. It didn't. It started on Profox and arrived here *last*.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
