> > I pretty much concur with his last point and remain disinterested -- not neutral, disinterested -- in everything else.
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> You mean "uninterested," then. "Disinterested" *does* mean "neutral." ;-)

You are correct. In the past, I've been mindful of the difference, and I thought about the word before I used it in the post, but thought through it incorrectly.

However, I looked the word up at dictionary.com, and two separate dictionaries had somewhat conflicting usage notes about it. Both agreed, however, that "uninterested" was actually the oldest definition of "disinterested." I find that neither uninteresting nor disinteresting.