Regardless though I used to be ambivalent to global warming but hardened into an ardent skeptic partially for the fact that the warming crowd called anyone who demanded falsifiability per the scientific method Holocaust deniers.

This was particularly offensive because I am Jewish, but now I really don’t care and just consider myself a denier.

Bayleat reminds me of something I see in many conservatives, like Dave Rye – they have extreme clarity of vision. They see things very clearly, and are erudite in expression of their views.

But they are tunnel-visioned. They see what they see very clearly. They just don’t see very much.

Something else, a little hard to put a finger on … Bayleat is like a trained dog who is very well trained indeed – he performs marvelously. But he’s not thinking his own thoughts. He parrots right wing doctrine. Many kids who score high in the high school grading system are like this – they are pleasing the adults around them. They’re not thinking for themselves. So I doubt very much that Bayleat has ever questioned the right wing belief system with much rigor. He knows what he knows quite well, is self-assured, comfortable in his beliefs, and does not venture out much. He never experiences doubt.

“Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.” (George Orwell)

I wrote “Well put.”

This provided me with quite the chuckle.