It should be noted that almost immediately after posting his last post, he really did unsub.
I'm of two minds about this. On the one hand, Tom's confidence in his own taste did not admit much in the way of dissent, and he never shrank from a beef. On the other hand it seemed like anyone sensible didn't end up beefing, even if they disagreed with him, loudly. If that means I just called someone unsensible, well ... I don't want to get into a beef over it.