Yes, Derb, obviously it is I who’ve gotten carried away.

Look, I think you were right yesterday when you said enough was enough. I wish you had stuck with that, and I wish I had ignored you when you decided to go back to the well. The argument is what it is, and I’m done responding. I apologize to weary readers for my misfortune of being constitutionally incapable of letting things go when it is past time to let them go.

Beyond that, there are curious things going on in this case — the kinds of things that the government ought to have quick, satisfactory answers about, and that a trial transcript would shed light on. That makes it all the more puzzling that we haven’t got one yet. I will try to stay mum on this matter unless and until I have something new and worthwhile to add.