You got me, Kirt!  Since you offer me the "last word," I will use it to
apologize.

It seems I abused information that you shared with me in confidence.  For
what it's worth, I simply *did not know* your changes, dietary or
ideological, were privileged information.

I hope to regain your trust and friendship.  As for your life changes -- Go
for it Brother!  I lost count of my own changes a long time ago.

Now back to the fray.  You wrote:
        << it seems like you're simply pissed at me for experimenting with cooked
foods. Or is it pointing out the shitty track record of instincto? >>

No -- but Kirt, I do have a "marrow" bone to pick with your way of
attacking folks you disagree with.  As I said at the time, your report of
tumor outbreaks among Instinctos smelled nasty to me in the absence of
supporting evidence -- which you did not supply, even when I pressed you
for details.

And on a personal level, I feel you are hitting below the belt when you
lampoon a man (whether Stephen Arlin or Guy-Claude Burger) for his private
dating habits or alleged sexual misdeeds.  Aren't such tactics on your part
as deplorable as my "cherry-picking of your ms. in public" -- which so
offends you now, when *you* are the target?

Maybe you and I both need a reminder to take aim at the TOPIC, not the PERSON.

With good wishes,

C.