Todd,
Four other members mentioned to me privately that they had their suspicions and I did, too.
Like you, I think we all felt as if it was just none of our business. I'm happy to write to Robert about centripetal motion. I don't feel like it's my place to bitch at him about other member's eccentricities.
Certainly, if Robert had not directly requested we speak up to him about it in the future, I would have kept my opinions on the matter to myself, too.
I very much struggle with how hard it is for me to reign in my distaste for people with whom I disagree, running to Robert always strikes me as risking that he'll just say "a pox on all your houses" and pull the plug.
But a clear order is a clear order. I don't, however, see it as license to mob people. You and I are representative of the ideologically opposite poles here on many issues, but I appreciate that you don't organize lynch-mobs against me, just because we don't see eye to eye on some things and I hope I've managed to be civil to you, especially when it has turned out one of us was right after all and the other wrong.
I may have overreacted to some of the abuse heaped on
Chad the last time (time before last?) but the basic principle is the same: There, but for the grace of God, go I.
We're too disparate a group to ever agree on some things, but it's Robert's living room and, in the end, his ball. He invited us to play, not to brawl.
Personally, I do wish Chad all the best. He's not a bad person.
