Yesterday, Dave Winer commented on Dave Sifry's Technorati API only to get a lecture from Tim Bray on REST and SOAP.  Today, Dave wrote a rather long rant which basically boils down to "Sit down Professor, I was complaining about the pain in my butt, not the Meaning of Life."

"When I wrote it, I was aware that some people would immediately jump to the conclusion that it was an anti-REST rant, and then ram a baseball bat up my butt to punish me. So I carefully wrote it so that if someone actually bothered to read it, they would realize that I was presenting the results of an engineering project."

Nicely put.  If someone rams a baseball bat up your butt, you have at least one good news: you have a good chance of keeping the bat.  I mean, who would want it back?  ROFL.