LOL don't feel bad, but thanks for the message. :-) I agree with your hope. I love to debate. Name-calling and idiotic bumper-sticker yelling don't fall under that honorable description IMO.
I felt bad for you not having any messages. Perhaps you are too nice! Ha ha. (want some brutal tough love lessons ?). That said, even though I am fairly diametrically opposed to you in our paradigms (the way we perceive reality) I hope that we unlike some of the what I call usual suspects can speak about the issues we disagree (or agree) in a civil manner?