Fair enough. I started skimming around halfway through so I missed that. I'd agree that there are limits to what you can read into the method of delivery, but:

Fair enough. I started skimming around halfway through so I missed that. I'd agree that there are limits to what you can read into the method of delivery, but: I think anger and indignance are valid attitudes to have, and that seems largely what he's defending. They're not like smugness in that I can still imagine someone sincerely caring about the truth having them. I'd also point out that I react with discomfort when I see smugness from my side, and annoyance when I see smugness from the other side, and these are physiological reactions that can't exactly be controlled. I guess I didn't see much actual content in the Bond article (ironically, most of _that_ article was criticizing method of delivery), so the method of delivery was all I had to comment on.