Pat Flannery wrote:

You know, as long as the two of you are alternately praising and
damning me (and each other) could you at least snip the quoted
previous postings, so I can get down to the actual new postings where
I'm God's gift to man or completely insane more quickly while reading
them? ;-)

I rarely snip anything these days. It's a bad habit that started in auk, but
since the lawsuit, it seems safer to keep the context for my comments
intact. The one thing that Novins drove home in the most costly possible way
is that any nutjob in the world (and Elifritz is high on that list, no
matter what he calls himself these days) can make what he wants of one's
words, at least temporarily (i.e., long enough to be somewhat expensive). In
Novins' case, it was worth the money to see him smacked around by his peers
and a federal court judge, but it's unlikely that I'd be so amused a second
time.

With that said, the best response to Elifritz is no response at all, and I
should be roundly chastised for giving in to my knee-jerk reaction.