Due to loss of my cable last night, my last edited addition to 224 failed to upload.

WWS/168:

Normally good advice, but hell, don’t tell a man on the front lines to retreat unless it’s time to surrender.

Oh, and I too got a concession on AGW from a family friend a couple of nights ago. However, he still thinks the ends justify the means “because look how clean the air is now.”

After I hope I suppressed an eye-roll, I couldn’t get him then to concede the two issues are not the same. What he’d done was casually switched the argument to the old demagogic sophistry that libs like clean air and conservatives like filth.

Your two women may have done something similar, only they didn’t let on to you (cuz they didn’t wanna talk anymore). IOW, you may still need to sonar for that evasion (delicately) to sustain your success.

I’ll blog the complete argument under On the Urban Front Lines.