:"At the risk of muddying the waters, I would think that those friendly to Objectivism would want to have all these silly quotes in, because they are almost all by people with a political agenda and come off as ideological. " THANK YOU!  That's (almost) what I've been saying ALL ALONG!  By packing the criticism section with criticisms of trivial matters or which appear to be irrelevant to the boo, you get people to wonder whether there are any serious criticisms at all.  LGagnon, take note. Or is Cooper a "Randist" now?