[tpaine]

['Goading and baiting']

I refer to that as the "bait and snitch" tactic, employed by a number of the authoritarian clique here. Good to see you back, BTW.

Great line. -- No doubt I'll be able to use it all to soon. -- Actually, it's been nearly two months now since my big mouth got me a time out. - I've been around, fighting the good fight, just suffering the fools a bit more quitely. Or maybe they backed off a bit.

Have I missed some event? Has something riled them up again?

[Twodees]

I don't think you've missed any event, unless it's one that I missed as well. Actually, the authoritarian pretenders to conservatism here have steadily lost ground since the height of their panic attack in September. They've really become sort of pitiable, in a way. ;-)