obviously humouring someone who 'thinks different' than most of us, just to keep them around so we have a more 'balanced' blog would be absurd,
depends what you mean by humouring them. If they're prepared to keep coming back and put up with our biases, I think it can actually only be good for us. Arguing against the tradmed is much like beating your head against a brick wall, we're just going to end up outraged that its still there tomorrow. if its absurd that we'd be more balanced, fair enough, do we all want it to be that much more balanced? Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
as for your comment about a balanced blog, i agree. we don't want to just preach to the choir.
or preach at all, lol.
balance is so relative, perhaps the banter and light-heartedness that balances out the wonk factor for the likes o' me, could contribute to the problem of 'bottling' essence de ET for 'serious' players. (like the ones xavier alludes to).
i don't buy in (!) to a conflict between boxers and wrestlers here, i experience it more as sweet'n'sour, soft + hard, yin/yang...
a balsamic vinegar of blogs! ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
