LH, your comments as usual are apt, accurate, and impeccably sensible. Unfortunately, for people to follow your argument, let alone your recommendations, requires that they abandon three of the most enduring human tendencies: laziness, narcissism, and demonization of the "enemy". (See Scott Peck's book People of the Lie for a more detailed explanation. It was written in 1983, and it's chillingly appropriate today.) I'm with you, guy, (and ol' Bobert too) -- but it's likely to be mighty lonely for a long time. And if the powers that be continue to have their way, it could get a lot lonelier. Kind of like playing Irish music in Waikiki--which is what I'm going to be doing today!

Aloha,
Mark