dgk wrote:

Heh!

Did I say ANYTHING about mercury being absolutely safe, or that I
wanted it added to a baby's formula?

My disgust has nothing to do with mercury, tuna, or the Japanese.
Read it again.

My beef is with the "true believers" who pester the rest of us to
death and insist on imposing their lifestyle choices. Soon we'll all
be forced to eat arugula three times a day even though our president
as said it is too expensive.

Straw man argument. Soon you will not be forced to eat arugula so fine
job of killing the straw man. Throwing absurdities up to mock serious
issues doesn't work.

No, one of the tests of logic is to take the proposition to the logical
extreme. That this extreme only exposes the presenter to ridicule and scorn
is merely a plus.

A supreme court justice said, just yesterday, that if a certain course of
reasoning were to be adopted, "we are not just throwing a monkey wrench into
the gears of government contracting; we're throwing the whole monkey."

There is no better way to discredit a proposition than to make fun of it.