Thanks for the ping - yes, it's a great article. Washington, as usual, comes off very well. I get a mental image of him in a cabinet meeting wondering if he were the only normal adult among that gaggle of egomaniac freaks. Very, very bright egomaniac freaks, but if he'd taken a cane to the lot of them I doubt if history would have blamed him much.
Nevertheless, there is something rather distasteful in a bunch of passionate people publishing wild tracts under ridiculous pseudonyms. Fortunately we've grown beyond that childish behavior. (Snork!)