Ric...Ric... Ric Dexter..... Hello, hello... are you there?

Ready and eager to answer the softball questions, Ric Dexter SGI leader and pundit on the Dallas News TEXAS FAITH blog invariably recuses himself when any hard questions are asked. Throw him a softball, for example, "What will be the lasting legacy of Martin Luther King" and there he is in all his SGI cult member glory, likening MLK [Mandela or Ghandi] to his mentor, Daisaku Ikeda. But ask for example, "Have Muslims effectively confronted terrorism within their own community?" and he is conspicuously nowhere to be found and when confronted, he has all sorts of excuses: I had to clean the litter box, my car needed a windshield wiper, I stubbed my toe, etc.