Actually Jack, I left that one just hanging out there. It's true that we can discuss anything here down to the most trivial, banal, sordid, inconsequential.....whatever. Our lives are made up of the inconsequential and rarely does anything of real substance come our way as it did on 9-11.

Discussion is simply that...discussion. No one changes much around here and it's fun to talk. What I did see in this thread was a lot of folks taking great offense at the epitome of banality. Jay Leno? Really? Now I admit that there are some viewers that are taken in by his stuff, but most around here are not.......And to actually have an opinion on anything he has to say means that we have to give him credibility, to actually let his opinion matter. Does it?

One of the most difficult things I have ever tried to teach any of my kids is that what someone says only matters if you believe it and if they are someone with an opinion that is personally important to them. It's the old sticks and stones argument but we all keep allowing the words to hurt us. Words only hurt if you respect the speaker and can believe them of yourself.

In any case, if it did offend you, I'd like to apologize although I hate to give in so easily lest someone think I'm French.

Spaw