philo-- love (lover of)
polemic(a) war

both from the greek of course.

yes, you did digress a bit.. but the devil (are you one of his advocates?) would be pholpolemical! so -- not to far off..

Mostly this site is for words.. but ocasionally, we do have digression like yours.. We're a tought crowd, please us, and we'll let you get away with them all the times.. bore us, and we'll let you know real fast too! we tend to be as tough a critic as any editor is dealing with unsolited material!

humor, especially droll humor, plays very well here.

please note, above, i used a rather imperial we the opinions above are entirely my own!