Re: E-85

Bill,

Now it's my turn to sigh.

Does it make you feel smarter to repeatedly say that I don’t get your point?

I really do get your point. Really. I am not stupid and am fairly adept at reading and logic. I got your point sixty or seventy paragraphs back.

If you want to decry extremism and polarization, look at my posts and then your responses. My little two-sentence reference to hyperbole, intended to be humorous, generated a response of 448 words. Your last post was over 900 words! "Sigh."

If weight of words alone was the determining factor, you would be the clear winner.

My reference to demonizing was not aimed at you, personally. But you are not the only poster on this thread and others have castigated Gore, with no, attempt to praise him for the good he has done. How is that for polarization?

I have always taken the middle ground in my posts here, although not necessarily in real life. I have done so precisely because I see too much strident and pedantic rhetoric in this thread and too few real attempts at communication.

I know you know what I meant by my refernce to the overweight surgeon, and to be honest I expected you to respond as you did.

I'm happy for you and your primary care physician, as well as your anesthesiologist, but not everybody has your options.

Chumango was right--and I too will pack up my toys and go home--er, move on to another thread.