And while Moyles has seemed to thrive on scraps with rival hosts during his time in the chair – most notably with his equivalents at Radio 2, Chris Evans and Terry Wogan, of whom Moyles once said "I'll tear that wig off his head and shove it up his arse" – he was never going to be able to argue himself younger.
Near the end there's a painfully quiet lullaby called, "Less Than You Think," on which the man tries (and fails, naturally) to argue himself out of existence: "Your mind's a machine, deadly and dull/ It's never been still and its will has never been free," he mumbles.
He gives us a long, global, and no doubt reliable history of sewage treatment since earliest times, but neglects the opportunity to argue with himself.
It is how Dostoyevsky the ardent Christian was able to argue against himself, awarding Ivan Karamazov the most devastating petition against conventional Christian belief ever mounted in a novel.
Frustrated in Benidorm early in his career, he rode nine freezing hours on his Vespa to argue before Franco himself, in the Prado, that the best way forward for his rigid, war-ruined country was to open up to tourists.
It's hard to argue otherwise; Bush himself admitted it.
Breitbart News, indeed, is fingered by most people as "Alt-right" HQ: Ex-Breitbarters who walked out earlier this year over the site's wholesale embrace of Trump like to argue that Andrew Breitbart himself would be disgusted at what his baby has become.
At the root of this is the American obsession with self-reliance, which makes it more acceptable to applaud an individual for working himself to death than to argue that an individual working himself to death is evidence of a flawed economic system.
He is also likely to argue that Mr. Rajaratnam himself made the decision on how much to invest, and so the amount of the gain overstates the harm from the insider tips.
He has been critical of Mr. Eisner, with whom he continues to argue over compensation for himself and his co-chairman and brother, Bob, and over related accounting issues between Miramax and Disney.
While he is careful to argue that neither Hitler himself nor the German population at large can possibly be exonerated on the grounds of their mind-altering habits, it has been suggested that the book's popularity in Germany may have something to do with that very interpretation.
