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I just want to thank you for the research and thought you put into this. I have to confess that I rely on your judgment to a great degree when forming my own opinions. Even on issues that I may disagree with you on, your own thought processes and evaluations are sufficiently open and transparent and your approach of using principles first rather than identities and group membership as the basis for your decisionmaking allows me to use articles such as this one as a good starting point in formulating my own viewpoints.
Besides, after the Liberman fiasco, I was sort of hoping for something to feel good about!