Perhaps you can appreciate the difference between The Lord of the Rings, which was self-consciously written to be a mythology for England, and The Brother's Karamazov which is set in the middle of the 19th century. We get it Walter, you hate socialism.

More accurately, I'm an advocate of freedom, yours as well as mine.

I appreciate that, and I'm sure we feel very similarly about the importance of individual freedoms. My snark has to do with the fact that I find your comments on political threads to be ideological and uninteresting, which is disappointing as someone who thinks highly of your work (and talks) on programming.

> ideological

It's evidence based, not faith based. Try me!

In contrast, I am not religious any longer because I could not find any evidence of its reality.

> and uninteresting

I can't help with that.

P.S. I'm giving a talk on code generators on Jan 16 at nwcpp.org. Come join in!