Russell, Agreed, that is what makes this one of the places I love best on the Internet. I think that folks who are going to put strong opinions out there should be prepared for disagreement and make sure their hide is tough enough to accept that not everyone is going to line up. You and I...
When a person expresses strong opinion in a public forum, I think it a bit naïve to think that strong different opinions won't be offered in return. If Mark was attacked I must have missed that.
Might have been the following quote from the link:
I think that Mark was actually practicing what is becoming an increasingly endangered species of communication known as sarcasm.