==Civility== 

 Would the rest of you please leave the room and let me talk to Zen-master alone for a while. You can stand at the door and listen. 

 Z, you had me there for a moment (at R&I; talk) but then you suddenly lost me. When you said Only a racist would I wanted to ask you to leave the web site for a few days. 

 But since I believe in you, let my suggest something different. Instead of using inflammatory language - which some other contributors might infer was directed towards them - why not rephrase your sentence? You can get the same point across by saying It is not right to. 

   June 28, 2005 11:16 (UTC)