e.newbie: Agreed. I was willing to entertain the chance that there might be something further here. I'm neither a big bandwagoneer today, nor was I big on flaming people in the past.
But you are right: this just "is what it is." Someone told me once that lies are like bubbles, they always make their way to the surface, sooner or later, one way or the other. (Also, there's a good lesson somewhere on "Lies of Omission." Yeah, you can get burnt.)
This one feel a little like foot-in-mouth. Again, hard to not to DNS. Bummer...
LnH