*chuckle* That's for sure... I just wanted to make the point that satire and sarcasm, when appropriately employed, are legitimate debating tactics because often they can illustrate a point better than any other method. What's "rude," btw? It often depends more on the concept of the reader than it does on the intent of the author and different readers will draw different connotations and inferences from the same set of comments--ie, what bothers you might not bother me, and the reverse. Even if I think someone's comments are rude I probably will not say so because I can't divine his intent. So I'll either ignore such comments, or else address myself to what I consider to be the meat of the post as opposed to the wrapper. But that's just me, and I can see how some people might be put off by the form of a comment as opposed to its substance.
