A response to Unfair, by Juliette at Baldilocks:

(Your comments aren't working.) Glad to see you back in the comment mode rather than just posting articles. I would take your "outside their specific domain" comment personally, but since I know that--along with my rants--I've submitted posts using valid premises and cogent reasoning, I just can't. (Now whether you, using the same tools, would come to different conclusions is a separate issue.)

Should I chalk this oversight on your part up to your polemicist and rhetorical tendencies? Don't know, since I don't you and have rarely visited your site (not because of what you saw, but because you've rarely had anything to say of your own lately).

Traditionally, most of the action around here takes place is the comments. The articles are both starting points for discussion and opportunities for me to goad folks a bit with the titles I choose. We get intense over economics sometimes, Libertarian vs Progressive vs Conservative some times, and things ebb and flow as all things do. It would be easy for you to miss. I should probably add a few threads to the "Best of" box. There were several very interesting discussions on pharmaceutical pricing.

I do know that you and Walter are operating from a set of assumptions and that I'm operating from another. Please be so kind as to remember and respect that before you attempt to belittle my opinion and my way of expressing it.

Sorry you're troubled.

Speaking for myself, I'm operating from observations. I don't believe you are. I believe "set of assumptions" is a very accurate description of your starting point, as far as politics go. And for absolute clarity, I don't belittle your way of expressing yourself at all. You're quite good. I think very, very little of the particular opinion you've expressed in the post Walter commented on, though.

And I post what I post.

You as a person have my respect, and you (as well as the entire Black Republican cohort- see the comments again!) always will. But there are certain opinions you express that I will never respect. And as you may recall from our first discussion I never say anything I'll need to back away from later.