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I began a rebuttal to your points, but realized that it would be futile, and a waste of time. I'm afraid we will just have to agree to disagree.



Astonishingly enough, that's exactly the same reason why I initially decided not to give a detailed response.

But you asked...

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I appreciate your reading the article and taking the time to comment.



And thanks for taking the time to read and consider my response!

I suspect any additional responses would just devolve, sort of like John's free verse. I'm sure there's some rhyming scheme embedded somewhere in his lyric - I'm just not clever enough to grok it.