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:Thanks for the reply. I appreciate being invited, but you don't need to create controversy on my account. That a few of the panel members read my comments is all I request. At any rate, I'm headed out of the country to visit in-laws later today, and will not likely be online while your panel is underway.

:Thanks for the reply. I appreciate being invited, but you don't need to create controversy on my account. That a few of the panel members read my comments is all I request. At any rate, I'm headed out of the country to visit in-laws later today, and will not likely be online while your panel is underway.

:To answer your question about blocks, the most recent one was by a parodist (JacobB). Whatever prompted it has disappeared from my logs, but the "personal remarks" JacobB referenced probably had something to do with me ribbing his buddy TK about the "socialist sport" comments he had made during the World Cup. Nothing earth-shattering.

:To answer your question about blocks, the most recent one was by a parodist (JacobB). Whatever prompted it has disappeared from my logs, but the "personal remarks" JacobB referenced probably had something to do with me ribbing his buddy TK about the "socialist sport" comments he had made during the World Cup, and moreover was undone 30 minutes later without my asking. Nothing earth-shattering.

:As for the other blocks, I'll briefly describe them here. One I'll admit to being deserved, both are very instructive as to what's keeping good-faith editors away from here:

:As for the other blocks, I'll briefly describe them here. One I'll admit to being deserved, both are very instructive as to what's keeping good-faith editors away from here: