[hotpotato]

There's a guy named Mike Ditka ('da Bears) who owns a restaurant. Would you take anything seriously he had to tell you about football, just because he owns a restaurant or two? Rodney Dangerfield owns a restaurant. If he told you something about comedy would you give a listen, or not, because he owns a restaurant?

These irrelevant analogies do not make an economics professor an expert in foreign intelligence and covert actions of the US military. But it does help me to see why you think it does.

[thesummerwind]

I'm not thrilled with analogies either. My mother used to warn me against them back when I was a kid back in the 50's. (She used to say, and I'll never forget it, "comparisons are odious." - I must have heard that 100 times - I guess I made too many comparisons even then! ;))

Anyhow, what particularly do you find that the writer wrote with which you disagree? What? Your sarcasm is never-ending, but you are not making your point at all. What particularly do you find incorrect in the article? Quit attacking the messenger, try attacking the message. You are sounding not unlike a weak-minded liberal with your rant against the writer's background.

I'm beginning to think you must have just had an unpleasant experience at your local chuckwagon or tearoom!