Actually, that's a rather apt analogy. While she did throw some curve balls (mammoths, fer criminy sake??) I was expecting to have to bring up her "rebuttal" page on weather and earthquakes, and she brought them up herself. Several other big, wet, softballs were lobbed my way as well. When she jumped on the RAND corporation release as if all astronomers went along with it, I almost laughed out loud.

It went better than I could have hoped.