Yeah, Weelittledrummer, I'm a young lad of 74, bones too brittle for football, heart too undependable for cycling or tennis.

The thread I thought was missing was an attempt to call attention to another thread I had started with a satirical fantasy which is all too close to the truth for comfort. I happen to feel a desperate urgency in getting its message across. The power grabbing president and sinister vice-president are all too real, the congress's temerity in checking them well established, the Supreme Court's willingness to grant the administration almost anything it wants too obvious.

Charles