Gee, Brucie, he called me just last night. We talked on the phone for an hour or so, I guess. Good connection, too -- God sounded like he was right in the room. Oh, he said to tell you "Hi."

I'm aware of history as a river, very much so, rather than a series of vignettes with little or no relation to each other. But every river also has a series of backwaters and sloughs.

There was a 19th Century "secret society" called the Knights Templars (I believe), which were much like the Masons, the Knights of Pythias, the Odd Fellows, and the K of C.