Mick, I am afraid there is no question-- they VILL be back. The progress we make is always whiplash-formed, with the forces of Boskone always finding new dramatizations to offer to our most lizardly sides. As PAscal observed, we are ni bete, ni ange.

RIg, what reality is it you believe in that Mr. Obama is refusing to deal with? I have to confess, sometimes you sound liuke a genuine scurrilous blackguard in your unfounded assertions.


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