Are you really the same Alydar who used a reference to Hegel as shorthand for an inside joke re the relationship between the Rags & Marxism? Even upon rereading the tongue-in-cheek nature of the comparison to McCarthy is readily apparent, although it does require this bkgrd knowledge: (a) that your name names request is virtually identical to the one McCarthy made repeatedly during the Army-McCarthy hearings; (b) that those hearings were part of an investigation of the House Un-American Committee; and (c) that minus the personal tidbits,the last line of my post parrots the testimony of many witnesses, including those who refused to "name names." By the way, I'm pretty sure that the "Have you no shame Senator" defense lawyer who is often credited with bring an end to the witchhunt landed his 1st & only acting role when he appeared as the Judge in "Anatomy of a Murder."
My basic reason for not naming names is that I have no interest whatsoever in the personal attack/counterattack posts which seemed so prevalent before the changeover. I also have strong suspicions that certain of the "names" are in fact a single individual using multiple monikers, presumably as part of some misguided effort to show that there is a groundswell of support for his or her position. For example, witness the lack of posts critical of the daily analysis since one person was called out on the matter. I hasten to add that I am ready willing & able to defend my handicapping theories, which I do in 2 separate posts.
Lastly, I'm not sure what to make of your claim that you know better than I what was in my mind when I did the original post & indulged my penchant for rhetorical flourish. On the one hand, it brings to mind Madame Cleo, the Jamaican pyshic in the news lately, whose power to see the future did not extend to predicting an FTC enforcement action. On the other hand, perhaps you are also making some reference to the logic of McCarthyism, in which case you're one up. As much as I enjoy debating racing issues with you, if you're serious about some of the things you wrote then perhaps HP's admonition that it's time to lighten up may have some relevance here, as what we're discussing are different handicapping theories, not the war on terrorism.