Another great philosophical advancement that we have lost to the sound bite is the old standby---the bumper sticker.

Abby, I just tried to call you and was electronically told that you are indisposed.(Soooooo, say hi to K.)

All the great examples of loss here truly does seem to show pretty graphically just how relative the concept can be to us all. I suspect it's a matter of whose ox is being gored---and what your paricular ox actually is when your rose colored blinders have been removed.

My ox is trad folk music, but I bet, from my many pronouncements here, you already knew that ! (And so many mediocre singer/songwriters have, in recent years, grown huge horns and run amok. Where are the matadors when we really need them? Arise, o ghost of Manolete and Juan Belmonte and Joselito and stand with me now ! Fat chance. ;-)

Art Thieme