`Thanks for the heads up, but yeah, I should have known better.'

Unfortunately, it's hard not to get sucked in sometimes. His refined and complex brand of stupid can be hard to ignore...

`I've seen his stuff here as well as on fieldherpers and still responded (against better judgement).'

Ok. I didn't remember seeing you around before, so I wasn't sure.

`While I think questioning (even "authorities" ) is a good idea, arguing to argue is not productive. And one can simply read this thread to see that discussion without comprehension is not productive.'

Seconded, on both counts. The ironic thing, to me, is that I agree with many CKing's basic ideas regarding acceptance of paraphyletic taxa and the like, but I still become a `cladist' when I disagree with his application of the ideas. *shrug*

Patrick Alexander

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