[timr]

> Complexity is holding multiple, sometimes contradictory, things in one’s mind at once.

Yes!

> Mullis can be intolerable but still responsible for something meaningful.

Sort of! Agree with the spirit of the sentence, but "intolerable" is a blanket statement. Intolerable to whom?

OK, so you don't want to have him over to dinner. That's fine; I get it. But do we just start calling people "intolerable" if a large number of people don't like them? Should UC Berkeley Alumni magazine publish a puff piece on "The Intolerable Joe Biden"?

I won't be holding my breath.