Thanks for posting a link to this Salon piece, it's a good one.

After reading it, I just put some of my own thoughts on the topic on Donal's earlier discussion thread on it
here.

I noticed Donal just edited his post to include a link to yours. And it already has a good discussion going, 29 comments, but only 4 Recommends. I would hope that anyone else that has anything interesting to say would hop over there and join the thread and recommend Donal's thread so that others see it on the recommended menu and join in.