Hank,
 
          I would like to make a public request that you consider
          making your language a bit more restrained. By being
          so...emphatic, you are inviting similarly emphatic
          disagreement, and so on up a spiral.
 
          Please remember that, unlike your newspaper column, these
          posts are read by museum professionals with broad expertise
          and experience. Some of your enthusiastic postings sound a
          bit patronizing and unconsidered, to me at least.
 
          A civilized request to maintain a civilized discourse. It's
          rare enough in this world.
 
          Eric Siegel
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