[blackdog]

50% of the American public reads your post on law, and treaty in the US Iraq invasion. It's short and factual.

However that same 50% hears "Blah Blah Blah....." and waits to hear what Dan Rather or Bill Maher tells them to think.

Most of them think Paul O'Neil is the half brother of Shaquille O'Neil.

[Imal]

The irony is that most people who won't read long posts are the same ones who insist on citations and attributions for every claim made.

Although "brevity is the soul of wit", and I strive to keep my comments as concise as I can, there is only so much I can cut out of my responses when someone makes broad, false statements.

It's definitely a balancing act, with usually negligible rewards for the effort.

Ultimately, past a certain point of reason, I am forced to leave those who refuse to seek the truth to their blissful ignorance. We are all subject to its seduction to some degree or another.

Still, I try.