Well Larry, you get points for becoming a real person over here for sure. The reaction from me was mainly due to the fact that you have recently jumped into some fairly heated conversations with an obviously fake name.
Thank you for your acknowledgement of the difficult job and position I am in as moderator of this forum, recently that job has been made more difficult by right wingers that personally attack me for my political views, I have been told to "watch my back" and all sorts of other insults that I had to delete. For this reason when I have an anonymous poster call me out I am going to go right back at them, and if they escalate then they will be banned. I am glad you chose to do the right thing, apology wasn't specifically necessary but appreciated. With a message board it is always hard to get a real fix on who someone is and where they are coming from, specially when they are using fake names and such. For this reason, during turbulent times on the board, I pay attention to anonymous posters closer...
Irie