You have to scroll down towards the end of this monster posting. Zycher has proven to be profoundly careless with his facts in his post, which makes this comment of his rather self-referential:
The modern art of blogging---of which you are one of the truly prominent practitioners---has many virtues, among them the stimulation of discussion and the ability to correct errors and set records straight quickly. But among those virtues one searches in vain for carefulness; the familiar trade offs are heavily weighted toward edginess and speed.
I can only hope that he corrects his errors and sets the record straight quickly.
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