Yes, Carrol. You are correct, at least in part. Also, the tone was deteriorating. It was sounding like: "You son of a bitch why can't you accept my source as unimpeachable ......." Carrol Cox wrote: > (I think the features of the thread which led to Michael's suggestion > that it was exhausted were precisely those which constituted its > empiricist nature. Within the limits of a purely empiricist approach > the disputants can only hurl uninterpreted and uninterpretable "facts" > at each other endlessly without coming any nearer to a decision on > the issues or even on what the issues are. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901