[Urbane Guerrilla]

Bruce, that's a very questionable remark for someone of your manifest intelligence, in spite of how widely you've gone astray.

I said it -- precisely because it's the thing you'd rather wave away. Sorry 'bout that (I kid), but the question stands. Answer well, or would you rather do what so many of the adherents to the view you'd rather I adopted, and wimp right out?

Wimping out, of course, is hardly acceptable to good men, but much cherished by bad ones. Well, fuck that for a dollar and a half.

But go ahead and essay a decent reply. The exercise may well give you improvement and insight -- which I like. I'd particularly like it in you.