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How about him saying "looking a little scaly, bub" for a caption for lewis. Surely what Lewis looks like has no relevance on the argument. Seems Lacklin has it out for Lewis.

I guess calling him an idiot is not ad-hominem in that he's arguing he doesn't understand what he's talking about.

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If you're on a mission to spot all the unproductive rhetoric in a substantive criticism of the book, that's fine, but I'm not interested. It takes a couple minutes to think out and write up an explanation of what these criticisms are about, and when you respond to one of those explanations by changing the subject to a snarky caption on a photo, I'm made to feel like I wasted my time.

Sorry, didn't mean to waste your time.

A) I agreed with your last comment

B) was just pointing out that the snarkyness comes across strong in the blog post. So it's possible that frame of mind affects the writing and it affects the reader, argument aside.

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