>seems like to me. which is why "i don't know" might in fact be a cop-out,
>here, and jillette would have been much more compelling if he had faced up
>to that part of this question, which he considers here apparently from a
>purely theoretical point of view.
Yeah. This opinion column is a toned down version of Penn & Jillette's approach on their Bullshit program on cable tv. It's entertaining but a lot of times it's bullshit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_&_Teller:_Bullshit!