If evolutionary progress is about depth and span, then a fair comparison would be to put ES and RT's best and worst works side by side for a holistic and analytic scoring from a statistically validated group of readers/viewers. That would shut us both up and give us both something constructive to consider besides the fact that your mother sucks and your father blows.

It continues to be my contention that Eric Schaeffer would, on average, demonstrate to your brick-thickened intellect -- in unbiased empirical terms -- that he is a more evolved being than Rebecca Traister.

All behavior is allowable.

Not all behavior is acceptable to everyone all of the time.

Our shared spaceship is powered by the universal will to become, and that means that Traister can neither successfully nor accurately judge Schaeffer. The reverse, however, is not true.

Evolution expands and includes simpler forms. Molecules can't judge or even comprehend humans, but humans can know an awful lot about molecules. Humans, however, neither can, nor care to, understand what it is like to be a molecule. They are a lower form on the evolutionary ladder. A place humans gladly left behind on our way up and out.

Eric Schaeffer is made up of many multiple varieties of Traister's sort. Yes, it is alarming and somewhat annoying when one realizes that they have perceived the breaking of some rule by someone we have been taught to believe should know better. However, that still does not change the map, the model, nor the facts depicted therein.

Traister seizes on little pieces of Schaeffer operating within her own psyche and presumes to know enough about the picture to pass alot of unfair and distorted judgments against Schaeffer and his behavior. Schaeffer recognizes his own capacity for self-criticism in Traister and becomes saddened and aggrieved, but does not criticize and attack her for the imaginary crime of being the best little trollup she can be at the moment.

So there you have it. We both have similar value mechanisms at work, we just have a problem of inversion between us. I contend you are lower on the evolutionary ladder than myself, and you claim just the opposite.

However, it is my superior level of compassion for my fellows that gives me license to comfortably believe that I am looking back at myself many years ago when I was more ignorant than I am today.

You think me a moron and I understand why that might be. I see you as misinformed and ignorant, but not wholely unworthy of tutelage.

The rush comes from knowing full well that communication is impossible between us -- each sees the other as unlike the way he sees himself -- and yet it still takes place somehow. My joy at this miraculous, happy fact is uncontainable.

And so, yes, thank you. I love you.

...spiritually speaking, I have a bigger dog in the fight than you do concerning what is right or fair when criticizing a public figure, or when broadcasting such criticism for public consumption.

Push it to the line, stomp on that line, if you must -- but cross the line and there will be a confrontation.

Obviously you chose to take the confrontation more seriously than others.

That suggests a problem for you that I have no part in solving...because it's not my problem.

...aligning with this guy is easier than aligning myself with Dick Cheney or George W. Bush.

Unfortunetely, we are all aligned with all of them, you and I.

Casting them OUT is the same thing as throwing them IN. Deep within.

I want them where I can SEE them in all my conscious glory. Refusing to accept that fact, or to try to deny the fact, that I am on the same planet at the same point in history as these fellows -- and you -- is like eating poison and expecting someone ELSE to die.

If I were to read this screed that you posted I would think the individual has an on-fire ego and is sexually addicted, if not sexually obsessed.

But there is something inside of Eric Schaeffer, and inside of all of us, that is deeper than this kind of homo-erotic patter. Some people don't have the stomach to accept the fact that most of us are little more than chimps with Etch-A-Sketches, but lack of acceptance and denial of belief doesn't make the phenomena go away, it only gives it the power to harm ME.

See the beauty, ignore the ugly. Remember the shadows only for the light that makes them possible. In the end there can be only one and it should be obvious by now which one is the only reality possible.

...but if they did, it would have to be so nuanced and warped that only the current Pope could bless it.

Sorry, Steve Paulson, but radio may be your thing. Your only thing.

Before publishing this sort of drivel, one should cease noticing what's, "popular," and start paying attention to what makes sense.

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...recommend sugarless gum for their patients who chew gum.

That means 20% of the well-educated, duly licensed dentists out there are either maddenly incompetent or appallingly unethical. In either case, these dentists are of no good use to anyone.

This administration and its behaviors often approach this threshhold of unacceptability. Its chief executive is barely capable of walking AND chewing gum at the same time.

At the risk of sounding like the present members of the legislative branch, I vote that we END this travesty and dispense sugarless gum to all dental patients who chew gum.

It's "fourth box" time, my friends. That's the tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth.