"Peter Wieck" wrote in message
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Mr. Middius is silly for the most part, stupid always,
and invincibly ignorant. A common condition in most forms
of pond-scum with pretentions to a higher rung on the
evolutionary ladder.

I think this is by design. The Middius persona gets satisfaction from how he
can leverage his apparent ignorance into a position of dominance over his
brain-dead adherents. The person who animates him is not that much
better-informed, but he fancies himself enough of an expert that he would be
exposed if he revealed more of what he knows.