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Message: <blockquote data-quote="elkcub" data-source="post: 3619590" data-attributes="member: 14473">Fred,Lightbeam beat me to it.  Civil discourse requires that one learn how to disagree without being disagreeable, a skill you have not acquired.  An ad hominem attack, such as the one highlighted above, is "... an attack on an opponent's character rather than ... an answer to the contentions made."  Here, you boldly admit to having made this very personal and ignorant attack repeatedly, which can only lead to the question ... why?  Sadly, it must be apparent to all by now that you have no substantive responses or insights to offer, and for that reason it's questionable whether you really are one of those "intelligent laypeople" you imagine yourself to be.  I think not.  You are now on my Ignore List.  Ed</blockquote>