Articles like this serve a very important function for anyone frequenting a list like this, they give you a good peak into how diverse people think, how they make their assumptions (mostly subconciously) and they reflect opinions which often go unchallenged, or worse excepted as reasoned analysis, in the circles they travel. Such ideas, as painful as they may be and as painful as it may be to engage their owners (like the Branfman guy), MUST be engaged. Remember, they tend to think much the same of many of us...although I would hope we would be polite in our discourse with them. One problem, of course, with this approach is that sometimes these folk confuse engagement with validation. So one has to choose one's engagements carefully. sounds a bit like war, doesn't it?

jkuehn
Fort Leavenworth.