I am sorry that I came across as insulting. I interpreted your putting "citations" between quotation marks and then calling them impressive as sarcasm. I'm not sure how else to interpret it, but I will accept at face value your assurance that it was not intended that way.

I did not intend my statement as calling you an asshole. Rather, I perceived your comment as assholish. I assume that you are not an asshole, so I was requesting that you not act like one.