Hi, Doug...

Actually I don't watch Star Trek anymore at all, but I will never forget the magnificent social ideals that were put forth on a mere TV show...a gem in a sea of televised dreck was Star Trek Next Generation. You can thank Gene Rodenberry (now deceased) and Patrick Stewart for the class and vision of that particular show.

Art is the conscience of society.

Midchuck - LOL!!! Ain't that the truth about liberals and conservatives. That's why I am willing to give time to both, although I am a socialist, on the whole.

The Walt Whitman quote says it all, so I am pasting it in yet again...

Do I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself. I am vast. I contain multitudes.

We make the rules up as we go along...and just when we thought we had the ABSOLUTE DEFINITIVE ANSWER....Whap!...life hands us a surprise and we remake our own rules. It's happened to all of us, I hope.