Tico, Intrepid, Chai----thank you for the welcoming. I doubt if the kind of treatment I was referring to will ever "grow" on me. There is a gratuitous truculence in that man that betokens a much deeper problem. I have noticed that the self-same person in one post claims "evil is nothing but a construct of the mind" (echoes of his post to me), yet in another post, he condemns what Hitler and Stalin did. Go figure! I was surprised that nobody challenged him on these inconsistencies. But I suppose everybody knows that it would amount to