Today's City Lights column proposes a boxing match between David "Stonewall Jackson" Crisp and Don "The Cipher" Cyphers, editor and publisher of the online Montana News Association. Cyphers, who has never allowed his utter absence of editorial or language skills to interfere with his desire to be an editor, takes occasional clumsy and irresponsible potshots at the Outpost through his letters page and editorial comments. My well considered and literate shots at him have been catalogued at the Montana Fraud Association site (just scroll to the bottom for links).

Unfortunately, this worthy and potentially lucrative matchup probably never will take place. Cyphers still has never responded to my formal challenge to submit to a public test of Bible knowledge matching Outpost music writer Scott Prinzing (another preacher's kid) and me against Cyphers and the alter ego of his choice. The time for some great ideas never arrives.