So....you ALL (meaning both GfS and the rest of you who are fighting with him here) want "the other guy" (or the other gal) to be embarrassed over either not knowing who James Baldwin was? Or embarrassed because you thought someone else didn't know who James Baldwin was?

Get a life! The only thing you should all be embarrassed about at this point is your apparent inability to stop engaging in puerile personal vendettas and trying to humiliate each other in some way or another. What a silly spectacle it is. A pissing contest like this one should provide enough "juice" to irrigate California, if all else fails...but what a stench when it starts to ferment!

GfS - Thanks for the biographical link. James Baldwin was a very interesting man indeed, and a major figure in the social struggles of the 50s and 60s. I remember seeing his books around at the time, and hearing about him, don't think I read any of them, though.