Martin hasn't been hit anymore than he hoped. He knows there's a thread about body hair, but he comes along here just trying to annoy people, even doing that old To My Fans bit. I don't know about Dianavan (who sounds like a nicer person than me to take Martin at face value) but I mean no offense to him, or to the vague existence I provisionally grant him for fun and amusement.                                                                I'm not yet convinced he's ever bothered to think whatever he thinks he thinks, so why should I go to the trouble. If he actually thought what he thought he wouldn't need to look for a fuss, and wouldn't be so predictable. He would have something interesting to say about it that I couldn't make up as a parody of "some guy like that" and it wouldn't be just a joke. (Almost there, in my opinion.) People on all sides of things like to suppose they are tough-minded when they are being hard-headed. Wouldn't most of us entertain a different idea if somebody had something interesting to say for it? Hell, I'll shave my legs and underarms if I hear a good reason, it's not that hard. I'll even congratulate myself for having come into some money lately, but I'm not very limber as to kissing my butt about it.
   Martin, man I already know I'm full of crap, so don't bore me with the news. But that stuff was some of my better crap damn it, and if you can't see that, you must be taking me more seriously than I do.
   I used to think that spare change from wealthy idiots was a useless gesture of false help to the underclasses, but that was based on figures that grossly under-estimated the amounts of spare change and the number of wealthy idiots who have it. People should do it.