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Peg is NOT a jerk.

Neither are you!!!

For the luvva Pete, how about remembering who your friends are?

Anyway, the piece is very well written for what it is, which is understandably spun up. It is rhetorical.

And it is well done rhetoric.

But I think maybe Peg's point is that rhetoric -- however satisfying -- may take us further from 'the best course with the clearest understanding of consequence', a desireable goal in a time of great pain.

Anyway, neither of you are jerks.

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