Greetings one and all,
    I would like to first offer a final parting thanks to those of you who have posted your thoughts and ideas. Next, I would like to respond to "Breezy's" post. No doubt someone with your superb mastery of the English language would appreciate the foibles of semantics, the importance of words, as well as ideas, and how they do indeed impact lives. It is so refreshing to find someone who makes no bones whatever about their blatant anti-intellectualism. It is equally instructive to correlate that anti-intellectual sentiment with a single-minded fixation on market capitalism, illustrated by the question, "are you getting paid for this?" Thank you for standing up to be counted as an example of the decline of common decency and civility in our global society.
    I have never had much luck with online services such as this, and so it is again. I will be canceling my account and I do not intend to visit on another occasion. I nevertheless thank those of you who responded in a polite fashion, whether you agreed with my posts or not. In fact, I am equally if not more indebted to those of you who disagreed in a civil manner thus promoting discourse.
      -"Mikey"