Course Correction: New M.O.

After re-examining my last post, I realized that (1) it's too long, because (2) I quote far too much. This has got to be boring for everyone out there in Web-land. What I need to do is summarize the long academic passages, perhaps quoting few pointed phrases or sentences. So my plan is to distill the last post and represent it. And to do the same with some of the longer preceding posts. Stay tuned....