My qualifications are likely not as good as yours. However, seeing as how I hold a tenure-track junior faculty position at a Pac 10 school, I don't think I lack humility in asserting that I have some.
Incidently, I did not mean to suggest you are a pseudo-intellectual, only that the rather smug post of yours qualified for that discription.
Just as a smart person may sometimes do something stupid, a true intellectual may occaisionally write something that would qualify as pseudointellectual.
I don't know you or your work; I am sure most of it is of top caliber. Please forgive me if my post suggested otherwise.
Sounds to me as if it is just another d hominem which accomplis nothing but ill will.
Looking back at it, I do regret the tone of my post, and agree that it did little to contribute to the discussion. On the other hand, I think the same can be said of yours.
It also sounds as if you have very bad manners.
Yes, sometimes I can be a bit curt with people when I think they're talking nonsense. My advisor warned me about it, saying it could adversely impact my career. It's something I am working on.
I was not arguing that border enforcement is perfect, now. I know it is not.
Not perfect? No, not at all. That sentence qualifies for understatement of the day!
Having said that, all that I can say about your two points is that you haven't made any friends, today.
Well, I hope that I have done enough to make ammends and that we can still be friends.
I appreciate the olive branch.