You end up reproducing too much hot air, stuff that is baloney but takes too long to untangle. Batting down every dumb remark is a losing game.
mbs
Ummm...
Seems to me rhetorically ineffective. If I were you, I'd pick out the two biggest mistakes--say that these are the two biggest of many, many mistakes--and hammer them in one and two-syllable words...
In other words, do what I say, not what I do...
Brad DeLong