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I confess, I was mad at Mike Kelly once. I don't remember the details... maybe he spoke over me, maybe he didn't listen, and maybe he didn't respect that I might know something he didn't.

More likely it was because in the heat of the discussion, I felt like an idiot -- not because he was being a jerk, but because my wonderful, comfortable argument had some major holes I had not seen. Not a good feeling when you want to be taken seriously.

But as the discussion went on and my argument became more and more porous and desperate (basically disintegrating into a Devil's Advocate position), Mike did not take the easy opportunity to strike a fatal blow, he became *more* reasonable, helping me save enough dignity to dissolve my feelings of idiocy.