To anyone upset over the "invisible friend" rhetoric (it is certainly excellent rhetoric, by the way, as the reaction proves): Rip is being polite by...
You're thinking in terms of respectability, Rip. He's entertaining, which in the Clown World political economy is probably the most useful thing you...
You were right the first time with the pronunciation, by the way. It's "anti-cause-uhl". As in an anticausal system, or a system whose current output...