RB: Thanks! :) (talk about a short post)

I don't read Host's posts. I don't have the time nor the effort to read every source he provides. There is a very good reason that profesionally written and peer-reviewed information includes references, and there's also a VERY good reason that it's included simply as a list at the end.

It's great that you want to share your sources, just as any good scholar. But I don't want to read their writing, I want to read yours.

If you didnt include so many quotes, I wouldn't hestitate to read it. Especially since I typically agree with you.

in short:

I don't read any of your post because it's so loaded with quotes. If you wrote like a journal and included appropriate quotes WITHIN your opinion, citing the sources below, I'd read every one of them.

While me reading your post might not be important, I'm not alone.

2 reasons discussion suffers in politics threads:

1) Posters with an agenda derail every thread so that they are all about the same topics; and

2) Threads quickly get choked to death by extraneous information. I've got no problem with references, but the times that I have bothered to read every quoted and linked word I have not found it to be worthwhile or rewarding. Hell, it wasn't even topical.