because it hurts extremely deeply to feel the pain of smashing defeat, my antagonists will continue with their wailing and gnashing of teeth, as i make them pay the karmic price for years of cruelty heaped upon me. because, you know, i was right all along. when a kid has the hair-pulling phase, you have to pull their hair in response, _sharply_, and every time, without fail, to show them exactly what it feels like, and to let them know they will not win. make 'em think before they do it again. does this mean i like pulling their hair? of course not. it uses time and energy, and detracts from the reason we're here. but it must be done, unfortunately, to make 'em think before they do it again. sadly, though, some kids learn "slow"... *** for the record, of 300+ posts this week, i made 21, which works out to under 7%. (my rank is 4th place; don's 21% is top.) plus i'll put the signal-to-noise ratio of my 7% in a comparison with anyone else. heck, i created more signal last week than some of my detractors have made in years. again, sad, but true. (and they kill-file me, so they don't know it, which makes delightful and delicious irony, so we have sad and funny, in one package.) *** anyway, back to work, folks... nothing to see here, move along... ;+) -bowerbird