The funny thing is that I thought the initial comments (well, and the parodies, but I admit that I don't read those; they're long and I have No Sense Of Humour, so I'm unlikely to take out of them the entertainment that justifies the time) were perhaps unkind, but very clever. Questioning his awards and his credentials is, on the surface, extremely unkind -- but if you (as a hundred people have said) encourage people to lie about their professional credentials, you'd better be prepared to have yours examined.
So I consider the comments that occurred -after- he showed up to be more germaine, and therefore less desultory; more heated, but less snide. In general. I'll have to step back and view it again, though. I had expected something like a defense when he first started posting. Or something like a debate. Which, of course, didn't occur.
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Date: 2004-06-29 08:33 am (UTC)So I consider the comments that occurred -after- he showed up to be more germaine, and therefore less desultory; more heated, but less snide. In general. I'll have to step back and view it again, though. I had expected something like a defense when he first started posting. Or something like a debate. Which, of course, didn't occur.
I don't mind a fairly heated debate, though.