[longshadow]

... and the role of William F. Buckley has been taken up by Patrick Henry, Physicist, RadioAstronomer, Ichneumon, Longshadow, Rightwhale, and all the other members of FR's science squad.

I am honored to find my name in the same sentence with ANY of the others; to be included with all of them together is too generous.

The essay as a whole is brilliantly written, and on-point. You have earned the right to have your name aside the rest.

[RightWingAtheist]

Well, I really don't think I deserve to have my name along the rest (and there are sooo many others I forgot to mention-RightWingProfessor, PiltdownWoman, ExDemMom, Doc30, drammach, snarkswhenbored, etc-sorry if I'm still forgetting any one!), because as a layperson who lacks the detailed background of the ladies and gentlemen mentioned, it's my job mainly to listen to them, and encourage others to try to understand them as well. What's more, I'm in a Social Studies department-communication and rhetoric studies, no less! Don't think they'd want me standing shoulder-to-shoulder to them