Well, for someone who just started reading the site a few days ago, this has been an eye opener. Entertaining, for sure. But also in a "pound my forehead against the wall" kind of way.
I don't know this D Up individual on a personal level - and he may be a prince of a person, pillar of the community, respected family man. I suspect he may be. But he also seems like the kind of guy who, while at someone's house for a party, stands in the corner talking loudly and waving his arms and saying the same thing over and over and over until everyone else kind of drifts away in disgust. And then he grins and thinks he's won something.
Other than that - Go Clones and Go Gophers!