Thomas, your cogent analysis dovetails with my instant dissection of Uncle Sam's posts.
In the over 2 decades, I have been a freelance journalist and writer, I m used to people trying in futility to one up me by making these logically spurious and rationally impaired rebuttals.
I find that people who try to criticize any piece I write for Civil Beat or other publications do so with pure straw man arguments which is why they fail.
Its always good to see a smart and informed reader of Civil Beat see beyond the fog of empty analysis and non-existent thinking perpetrated by some critics.
Keep up the good work, Thomas.