quote:A few days ago, I had a moment of weakness and made a snide remark that was out of character.
OK...I see you feel you were "out of character".
No problem here. But you go on to state...
quote:I've had a tendency in the past to wield a verbal machete, and commence slicing and dicing (IMHO) stupid comments and the people who owned them.
hers the problem...
If you had a tendency to do this in the past...just how were you out of character?
quote:I'm going to make a better effort to keep my views on topic and not to get personal with someone obviously trying to stir it up.
UHHH...whats wrong with just being yourself?
Personally I don't care to see any false facades, but, thats just me and my cynical attitude I guess.