Karl,

I want to add my thanks for all you've done here over the years. Any detail I could add, others have already expressed more eloquently above.

And that's the singular greatness of your creation here - not just your own integrity and intellectual prowess, but that which you've encouraged in others. The sum of that makes this place unique in its constructive power, and has benefitted me in ways which have changed my life, and called me to clean up my act. Now, even my foolish setbacks in that regard feel positive - you have taught me to think in serious terms about the data that reality provides.

It seems to me that TF has been intellectual history in the making. I feel privileged and blessed to have had access to it. The little flag you were kind enough to place by my handle stands as one of my life's cherished honors; I feel proud that you deem my small acts worthy of recognition in this milieu.

May fortune continue to favor you and yours.

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The surest way to lose the Eye of Reason is to stare into the political spectrum.