>>I can see why you would not want somebody to apply a modecum of critical thinking here....
This from the man who claims he only ever addresses facts, and says he knows he is doing something right when people get annoyed at what he says?
Fact: of the last 9 "ad hominam" posts I can find on UT, the proportion involving you is ... 100%.
Have you ever considered that you are not the only person who can sling an insult? Why do you think people don't around here?
"... 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