MEA CULPA

I want to make this a fairly public apology; hence the Post rather than the Comment. Reading what I wrote late last night, I see that I very definitely crossed a few lines in my response to Ann, and so, Ann, I am sorry. I can say only that debating ideas, particularly the big kind we've been discussing, sometimes gets the better of my better nature. And that the late hour and my exhaustion made me surly. All of this is explanation, not excuse, and although we obviously see all of this very differently, you didn't deserve the personal implications I made.

And Karen, I'm sorry for abusing the forum. It won't happen again.n