Here I'd gone thinking that football, NASCAR and skydiving, as an evolutionary device, were a natural outgrowth, a culmination if you will, of civilization, a means for men to get that 'rush' that fighting lions and armored toughies used to give them and still live to fight and throb another day. But maybe history is circular, rather than linear, maybe it's time that we reinstitute the colosseums? Sure, it would mean more widows and orphaned children but think of the pride they would feel in their men. Facing off and fighting each other takes *real* courage.

Installing our menfolk in the proper entertainment format would free women to run the nations. Men wouldn't care- hey, they're scratchin' and spittin' and kickin' the sod to their hearts' content out there.

As for toilet seats- let's compromise. We'll *both* put down the toilet seat AND the lid. That'll let the womenfolk show off the fuzzy color-coordinated covers.