I followed the link you posted in a comment at the Bad Astronomy blog (which I had gotten to in turn by following a link a friend had posted (flocked, or I'd say who), though I probably ought to just put BAblog on my regular reading list). I hadn't gotten as far as looking at your profile to notice you were in B'more yet... As to whether we know anyone in common, it's a small world, and often seems especially so in my network of friends, so maybe.
For folks just tuning in, the conversation we're talking about is here, and the stepping-stone to it is here, a follow-on to this (which will show up in another QotD entry later, though a bunch of other people are already quoting the soundbite part). The topic at BAblog is a) the media giving crazies too much credibility and b) folks reacting more to what they expected him to say than what he actually wrote; and the topic at SurvivalMachine is health care reform.
Re: thanks for the comment
For folks just tuning in, the conversation we're talking about is here, and the stepping-stone to it is here, a follow-on to this (which will show up in another QotD entry later, though a bunch of other people are already quoting the soundbite part). The topic at BAblog is a) the media giving crazies too much credibility and b) folks reacting more to what they expected him to say than what he actually wrote; and the topic at SurvivalMachine is health care reform.