Rick, I don't want to turn you into an 'object', by which I mean: talk about you as if you were 'out there' and merely an animated lump that I can project my views on -- a 'thread-object' (?), so to speak. However (I hope you don't mind my speculating on you), maybe you were able to clobber back because you had a kind of power base in your being a well-paid and capable editor yourself. Packing heat, as it were. Anyone who rumbles you, gets rumbled. Not everyone has that. Also you are energetic and blessed with a spiky psyche. Not everyone has those gifts equally.
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