[TopQuark]

I actually had to use a textbook that he wrote. He is an idiot.

Judging from your comment, you thoroughly misunderstand the textbooks you read. It used to be that the first task of a student was to learn how to advance a well-posed argument. Now, it appears, all you need to do is name-calling.

[Nathan Zachary]

He wasn’t making an argument, he was simply stating a fact.
As for the name calling statement you made, that isn’t true either. He merely stated that based on the textbook the ‘professor’ wrote, he concluded he was an idiot, which is merely a descriptive word, words that are commonly used in the english language.
It’s like saying a person is fat, tall short, skinny, dumb, smart, an idiot, a genius, etc.

You on the other hand, instead of offering a difference of opinion and stating the reasons for that opinion, completely ignore the "advancing of a well posed argument" structure you rudely demand from him.

[Sonny M]

Judging from your comment, you thoroughly misunderstand the textbooks you read. It used to be that the first task of a student was to learn how to advance a well-posed argument. Now, it appears, all you need to do is name-calling.

If any textbook you have "understood" has lead you to believe that name calling is a slur when its accurate and honest, then I am sad that you have not recieved the education that you should have.

Name calling, if true, and accurate, and honest, is proper.

Alan Blinder, while being a nice guy, is an idiot. His textbook was a joke littered with errors (not typo's either, not opinion biases, just errors).

I am like the preacher in church, telling the truth and it hurts.