Nora:  Well said.

Michael Jones is a highly intelligent and well educated man.  Since he moved to Onset, he has been very active on village and town committees.  It puzzles me how someone with his resume can buy into any of BoBo’s nonsense.  His background in math and economics should preclude his belief in the 3 million dollar library coin-machine heist.

It also amazes me that Professor Jones has researched and written often about how and why people evade their taxes, and yet he strongly supports our former selectman, Sweet Brucie, who is the king of tax evaders.

Finally, I am flabbergasted that someone with Dr. Jones’ high IQ actually believes that the systematic purge of town employees by the BOS is an attempt to root out hidden corruption.  I haven’t seen any tigers on Main Street, and if Dr Jones is concerned about corruption, he needs to identify the source.

I've been scratching my head about this guy , too, for all the reasons the Dan and gog8men  have stated so well.

He doesn't fit into any framework I've acquired through  a life of working with people, but he does, in fact, remind me of  a dog that I loved very much, but who I had to "put down".

Mephisto  loved everybody except for the people he bit.  There was no apparent pattern.  He'd  have long,  bite-free periods and then for no apparent reason he'd sink his teeth into someone he had been friendly with before.. Because he was nice 99.9% of the time he got away with his occasional calf puncturing far too long.  It helped, too, that he was a respected breed (Portugese Water Dog) and  had been formally educated at Joe's Dog Dog Training School (Advanced Class) . Looking back on it, he got  far too much mileage out of that diploma.

After his third or fourth bite we took him to the world renowned "dog shrink" at  Tufts Vet School.   Dr. Dodman brought in three student interns to observe him go through his paces.  The conclusion: "You don't have a bad dog in the sense that he's mean: you have a dog who bites people when he's afraid."

Trouble is...or was...  he didn't tell us (for $400 dollars) what Mephisto was afraid of, so we slipped back into denial for two more bites of people who were too forgiving, and then, finally, the light went on, and I said to Sandra, "Hey!...You know what? If we had a kid that was nice except when he stuck an ice pick into our friends we'd have taken action  long before the sixth stabbing!"

So Mephisto ended up in that place where all good doggies who bite six people go.

Now I'm not suggesting that we put  Mick Jones "down", but rather that he has displayed some behavior that is disturbing and which warrants our attention.

Mick, like Mephisto, is not "bad" most of the time.  I think he shares with Mephisto the hang-up of going after people when he's afraid.

We never figured out what made Mephisto afraid, but Dan nailed it when he opined that Mick seems to attack out of fear. ( Bruce Sauvageau, on the other hand, falls into the "bad dog" category. He bites everyone in sight, because that's what bad dogs do.)

Consider Mick's attack on Peter Baum. Peter is a highly educated scientist  whose thought processes display the exact opposite of the fuzzy logic Mick Jones employed in his rebuttal, and in more recent posts.  People who lack humility usually have a lot to be humble about, and I can't find anything in Mick's recent outbursts  that makes him an exception to that rule. 

I think it would be helpful if a few of us gave him an invitation to "have a pint at the local."   This electronic stuff makes it too easy for relationships to go permanently sour.