Ed Dolan, Jim McNamara & Tom Sherman

I can't learn anything from Jim. He is too like me - argumentative and 
discursive to a fault. Unlike me, he does not ever learn when to let go,
but 
I understand him as well as I understand myself. Tom is the far more 
interesting character for me. I can learn from him because he is 
sufficiently different from me.

Jim and I represent the liberal arts. We are essentially generalists. Tom
is 
a scientist and represents those specialties as well as anyone I have ever

encountered. I make fun of those types but I respect them nonetheless. Our

world could not function without them. I do not like them ever ruling 
anything other than their specialties, but that is more than enough.

Jim seems not to have a clue as to what I am doing on these newsgroups 
whereas Tom does. It is a mark of his intelligence that he has figured me 
out. But still I would trust Jim more than I ever would Tom. Tom has a 
strangeness about him that Jim does not have. As Jim would say, these 
newsgroups are just chock full of conundrums.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

PS. By the way, unless you use your real name, I will always treat you
with 
the contempt that you deserve.