For the record, I tried pawning this one off on both Bernie and IC. No luck with that, so here
goes ...
Five years and 1,837 posts ago, December 11, 2013, Bernie published a little online meditation entitled
“Making Straight Paths” under the unlikely sobriquet of “Statweasel”.
Whatever he had in mind at the time, I’m fairly sure it wasn’t this — or at least it wasn’t exactly this.
That’s one of the beauties of collaborations: they have the potential to be more than the sum of their parts; the results often surprise everyone involved. Another is that when you throw your back out, somebody else is usually on hand to step up and shoulder the load. A third is that when you are accused of speaking out of turn, there is always another potential scapegoat available at whom you can point the finger if
you need to: “IC made me do it!”