Hello, @barncat,

I'm just stopping in to say that I greatly appreciate your extensive and well presented response to this article. You've put forth a good defense.

While I have noticed and appreciated your repeated visits to my blog, I'm concerned about the apparently superficial and polemic nature of the replies you've been leaving me.

I know this may be somewhat difficult to believe, but as I look over your work as a whole, and your comments (like this one) elsewhere, I find that you and I likely have more common ground than may appear on the surface.

I'd really like to see a response or two more like this one under any of my articles that seem to trouble you. I have no doubt that there are things that I can and ought to learn from you, given the opportunity.

Peace.