Priorities and tests of strength

[Burgbud]

Now... is Blackfoot a genius... I still go back to the Wizard of Oz. Very much a man behind that curtain, no matter how charming or eloquent. Has great thoughts... certainly comes across as an intelligent man... well read... good sense of humor... beyond that... GAVEL SMACK... insufficient evidence to rule as such. IMHO.

I'm not at all sure you've got the gavel on that one.

It's interesting, this amusing debate. A bit analogous to an Israeli writing a book on Palestinians that when other Israelis follow the ideas therein results in peace between the two sides. Then some goofy Israeli says, "This author is a genius!" and the Palestinians say, "Uh, no, that author doesn't understand us nearly as much as that goofy Israeli seems to believe."

And the goofy one thinks well, we've now got peace in the Middle East. The Palestinians will think whatever pleases them but I know who's going to win the Nobel Prize...