Bryan was one of the few individuals I have known in my life who espoused many opinions that are considered "inflexible" and yet was willing to examine his opinions, and more than that, to allow a group of very intelligent, articulate and persuasive people to examine his opinions. And comment on them.
He had a lot of courage.
At the time he was banned, we were having a PM conversation about . . . err, the issue at hand. He had just got through asking me, IMHO in all sincerity, why his stated position caused such an angry reaction. I truly believed that he truly didn't get it, and replied to him honestly.
I don't know where that conversation might have gone. I regret that.
Or as Dorothy Parker is quoted as saying, "If you having nothing nice to say about someone, come sit next to me."
Or, as Oscar Wilde once said, "The only thing worse than being talked about is
not being talked about."
