straw_man shadow le crowl very cool name. makes me think of the scarecrow, when dorothy said goodbye to him and she cried. 031215 ... straw man yes. straw man is a scarecrow. a fool in the grass. he is also a fallacy. a weak argument set up for only the purpose of breaking down. 031215 ... misstree targeting the person behind the argument rather than the argument, is it not? rather insidious and ubiquitous. 031216 what's it to you? who go blather from