whats the motivation in this scene?

I was sort of interested in John Latta's post today, in which Kent Johnson defends himself against Jim Behrle's bad review, except that I am not a lot interested in people defending themselves, and it gets worse as Jim Behrle defends himself, so that means cartoons and fizzle for a while, 2 agent provocateurs, I mean, I am sorry about local poetry, how small it wants to be, just best friends or doubt (which man is a man anyway? the one who worries more) but I'd mainly like to read John Latta's work on a large scale, the curious trip of getting here to there, not forgetting that orbs have no sides, but squares do.