Wow.... is Scuzzy on vacation. If I posted this a 30 ban would be in the mail.
It is, as I noted in my reply, an ad hominem attack. I don't retaliate in kind because history and the facts are on my side - see my response.
The thing you have to realize about the ad hominem is that, at least in debate circles, it's considered something like surrendering the point - and doing so gracelessly.
And, as Steve once said regarding Hogs who will slow way down with their uberflaps to out-turn your diving pass, "that's like surrendering and when they do that, you should kill 'em every time".
He took the bait. It's not the first time I've seen him get all grumpy and irrational. It doesn't make him a bad sort. It just means he's got some "issues".

That and he's an old-timer - i.e., he's got an account upon which to draw w/r transgressions, probably. Hell, I bet he and skuzzy are on a first-name basis.