David Brooks' take on the transition...

[kj]

davester wrote:
That's not true. Both swampy and shakeman disagree with me (though actually, shakeman pays no attention whatsoever to what anybody else says so that may be incorrect), but they are generally bearable and swampy is actually capable of debate. Pete has a very specific, easily recognized pompous, always wrong, always combative style. He is always on the attack, no matter what the other person says. There is no doubt that each of his sockpuppets is the same person.

What's interesting to me is that when he used the nick "lafayette pete" back in the early dealmac days he was actually an interesting and relatively reasonable (but very right wing) person. However, he eventually went off the deep end, posting long strings of profanity ridden posts replete with threats to many people on dealmac and other related forums. He's had his chance and several second chances. He failed.

That's true. Thanks, that's pretty reasonable. I tend to cut pete a lot more slack than others. Occasionally he would put together some amazing analyses. I also think a lot of the posters deliberately contributed to his meltdowns, and are equally to blame. I disagreed with him several times, and he was respectful as long as I was respectful. I know I'm alone in that opinion though. kj.