On Jan 18, 1:04*am, riverman wrote:
I'm going to have to distinguish between to two sides of you; the
racially-biased, deliberately irritating, immature bigot; and the rest
of you, which seems like a fairly everyday kind of guy who I could
imagine sharing a beer with streamside.

It is, I agree, sometimes difficult to draw the line when friendship
must give way to principle. I have a friend, good guy, with whom I
can discuss a great many subjects. We don't agree on everything (he's
a conservative and Giants fan for cryin out loud), but we get along
great. I was chagrined recently to find he's quite a bit more of a
racist than I'd known, quite objectionably so, in fact. This came to
light, of course, during the presidential campaign. Like beancounter,
he had an unexplainable hatred for BHO, and subsequent comments made
it clear that race played a part in that. Still, the guy's a friend
of many years, and I'm not turning my back on him; but I do envision
our contacts being less frequent.

Joe F.