today I heard stuff on TV, read stuff in the paper and on Mudcat that has me despairing about the future...because of ignorance and the seeming refusal of many people to CARE whether they are ignorant or not!

(Ignorance is not 'stupidity'...ignorance can be overcome: it is curable...with some help & effort. One of my favorite saying is "It's too bad ignorance does not itch.")


oh...and my major lathe in my shop is not working properly. To find out what is wrong, I need a bolt with a certain thread to unscrew a part. This thread is used primarily in England, where the lathe was made, and I have been to two hardware stores who 'should' have odd items, but without luck! I cannot fathom why, if a English company (Myford) cannot be bothered to make items sold in America have the threads WE use, they could not at least supply a bolt worth less than 1 pound to ALLOW me to disassemble this thing!