re: You are apparently insane...
Because Cowing has taken a disliking to you and thus no longer needs to reevaluated his thinking anymore about you. He simply attacks you like a good dog.
You put yourself in this position. You could have figure out the man is nuts long ago by reading his "yawn" and "yap yap" replies to serious questions. As far as I know nobody gets off his bad people list and it is very big list.
(An aside to Mark) This thread never belonged in Space. Flame or Off Topic are the correct locations for it.