Nobody's "scurrying away." And rather than an honest debate, GfS, you've turned it into a slagging match. Because you are there, like Wile E. Coyote, twenty feet out from the canyon's edge and you just haven't looked down yet, but you're getting abusive because you're beginning to realize where you are--hanging in mid-air

I have some real work to do. Legislators to phone and e-mail.

Prepare yourself. Lock the doors! Raise the drawbridge!

Don Firth