DougR, LOL!! Congratulations! Aaah you'll adjust to fame just fine. All you conservatives are innately humble. You inherit your self-effacing dispositions from the Godfather: Bill Buckley. :) hee hee hee - The Mother of All Modesty, by Allah...NYC Mayoral candidates' debate, 1965 - moderator, concluding the program: "Mr. Buckley, would you like to make any further remarks?" WFB Jr.: "No, I think I'll just contemplate the great eloquence of my previous remarks."

& Greg F, hawhaw!! Oui, d'accord. But the House Repubs are upholding a venerable tradition of silliness. Since I'm bumbling down Memory Lane here anyway: there was once an occasion when House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford of Michigan, in a big speech on the floor, announced his caucus's new program formally entitled Constructive Republican Alternative Proposals. / Evidently Gerry hadn't thought about the acronym. The Dems did, though...real quick... / I say (though reluctantly), throw Saddam out with his filthy Ba'athwater, since all the alternatives are now even worse; and (not reluctantly) quit projecting our frustration & anger onto people like The Dixie Chicks (for God's sake!) and Jacques Chirac. Like we can pursue our national interests as we see them, but he can't pursue his. C'mon. (But if we *must* Francebash, then at least let's get les produits correcte.)