…but I don’t think he was ever actually expelled: he was certainly made to feel unwelcome (I like to think I was no slouch in that department, and unless my memory plays me false, you as well, CRC, were known now and again to venture a gentle reproach), and he never found his way back here after the years of IWT in server exile. We don’t name him lest he take this as a summons and reappear to remind you of what a blight he was. Of course, that might rouse in you something like the incandescent eloquence for which, before age and fatherhood apparently banked those fires, you were justly celebrated and feared in these precincts, but I’m inclined to think that most of us here would regretfully decline to make that bargain.

As to the drive-by shitposter, yeah, he can be exasperating, but every now and then he posts something sane and coherent, which is more than the other guy ever did.

cordially,