Art,

   Just a word to say I can really sympathize with you over the negative responses you've been getting to a great suggestion.

   "The Infamous 'W' Thread: Bush Songs," which I started earlier in the month, also got slammed--and brought very little real creative response. It's curious how putting something out there, in hopes of fostering new stuff, brings out the worst in some people. I can only suppose there's a lot of floating rage out there just waiting for a target, however innocent.

   I think you and I have both been hoping for a sort of workshopping response, where people would be tolerant, not nitpick, but steer close to the goal of getting some simple rhymes out there that might help tunnel under this regime with ridicule. The mouse and the elephant.

   I'd like to think it still can happen. My brain's dry on the subject of Condi right now, but I'm thinking. Best as ever, Bob