Debating the debaters

[Steve]

I learn things from people who annoy me, perhaps they learn something from me too. I can be entirely opposed to somebodys view on one subject yet in agreement on another one. For example, I regard NRs illogical hatred of anything remotely socialist as misguided, on the other hand NR is the reason I joined this site after he expressed some sensible opinions on the PowerSwitch forum.

My "Ignore" list is unused and will remain so, it's too easy to misread someone. Another example: If you had just joined and read a post by RiverSong ending with the tag line "Why does prepper clothing look so damn ugly? Why does prepper food taste so bad? I'm wondering whether we can start a line of designer prepper stuff and gourmet food" you might conclude that her posts were not going to be important. You'd be very wrong, if you need proof look at recent posts on local phone networks, outstanding work.