On May 3, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Gallagher Mark George wrote:
Not that it's unprecedented for people on this list to be civility hypocrites.
Eep, let's chill, everyone, please?
I think he was making a joke (referring to Joe's problem of being accused of "hypocrisy"). If so, it was ... reasonably ... droll. I guess. Definitely unnecessary, regardless of the verdict.
If he was not joking, it was of course an unconscionable insult and I shall stand ready to defend Phil B's honour in a duel at dawn. Smelly socks at twenty paces, Phil W! Are you ready?
I'm not allowed to call people out for being uncivil while at the same time complaining about other people's incivility? "Hypocrite" was too strong a word perhaps. I should have said, "It amuses me how the least civil people on this list are the ones complaining about the incivility of others." Because now instead of being a hypocrite, you're entertainment. And that's better.