<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia; color: #333233">Mr. Art Deco,</div>
<div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia; color: #333233">Hi. Have we met? Do you know me? I don't think I know you. And yet you have smeared me (and Mr. Bouma, who is a good man) on...what basis, was it again?</div>
<div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia; color: #333233">Was it a stereotype? A generalization? A blanket statement? The sort of thing people like me get hammered for ever daring to utter? </div>
<div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia; color: #333233">But it's ok when it comes from you?</div>
<div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia; color: #333233">Let's get things back onto a better foot. Minus the baseless generalizations and <i>ad hominem</i> attacks.</div>
<div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia; color: #333233">If you'd like to have intelligent, cordial conversation, I'm your man. Take me up on my offer to meet for personal discussions. Not debates, not arguments, but actual community-building. We could all use that, don't you agree?</div>
<div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia; color: #333233"><i>Respectfully,</i></div>
<div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia; color: #333233"><i>Judd Wilson</i></div></div></div></body></html>