Shucks, Amos... You gonna blow my cover here, son... lol...

But, yeah, I was kinda blessed with an ability to cut thru the crap and anaylize stuff purdy good... I recall back in college VCU hired T. Edward Temple, who was the governor's Commissioner of the Administration, to facilitate a seminar in "Contemorary Urban Problems" and the class size was limited to 10 students, 3 from the left, 3 from the right and 4 in-tweeners... Over 1000 students applied with their differing perspectives and knowledge bases and I was chosen as one of the 3 leftists... One of the so called in-tweeners was the college presdient, Warren Brandt, who IMO was a rightie so the real make-up of the class was 3 lefties, 3 moderates and 4 righties... At the end of the year the 3 of us on the left had pried all 3 moderates over to the left and were workin' hard on one of the righties, Andy Canada... 'Bout a month after the school year I get a call from Andy, who BTW was the head of the Pharmacy Department at Medical College of Virginia and he tells me that, ahhhhhhhh, not only had he come 'round but that he had hooked up with one of his (liberal) assistant profs!!! Go figure???

Not that that means anything in the big scheme of things, mind you... But I am blessed with an ability to see thru bullshit when it is habded to me as the Holy Grail...

But thanks fir the compliment, non the less, 'ol son...

B~