Re: "attacks". To be honest, I did use the words, "silly", "sophomoric" and "juvenile" in my original response to the "guest editorial". I guess in a hypersensitive world, those words MIGHT be considered attacks, though of a different sort, and considerably different threat level, than the suggestion that someone might want to insert various explosive devices in different parts of my body because I hold a different point of view from them.

Oh, and there is one other little complication here. I made the assertion that freedom of expression--which was guaranteed in part by the efforts of men like Francis Scott Key--applies equally to statements which I find "silly", "sophomoric" and "juvenile", as well as to statements which I find offensive, and even to those which are vaguely threatening. That last one is a bit more difficult for me to accept inasmuchas I was one of the targets of the statement , but I do so because I doubt the threat to shove fireworks up my nose was made seriously.

It wasn't, was it?