I admit to not reading every post before I wrote this.

Garg..........nice to see you in your curmudgeonly role without the rank, base attacks. Now go take your medicine and get me a Guinness on your way back through the kitchen.

Joe..........loved the fundamentalist Mudcatters remark.......my sinuses won't recover until morning.

I live in an area which is the home to Calvin College and is known for being very conservative and "fundamentalist". It is also known for chasing Kath Westra off to the East coast, hence making me have to love her from afar...........LOL. As you might guess, the Public Pulse section of the paper is full of analysis by these good folks about why the rest of us, the great unwashed are all going to go to hell and so are our children, for watching this. In fact, my "almost 10 years old, DAD!!!" daughter was accosted by one of her classmates and told she was going to hell because The Bible says that is what happens to people that see the movie or read the book. Fortunately the formidable Miss Ciara has been raised to know ignorance when she sees it, and dismissed this little friend.

I guess I want to ask these self righeous and IMHO, idiotic people if they ever read The Arabian Nights, Norse, Roman, or Greek classic mythology, or for that matter comic books, when they were kids. It is a work of fiction for crying out loud. It seems to me it is much more important to teach the wee ones to live honorably and by the codes that we each choose to live by. It is much more important to teach that being judgemental is a fundamental sin in itself. I am not smart enough to understand what makes The Greatest One upset enough to not let me into the clubhouse. But I am smart enough to know that it is more important to live according to the precepts that I have chosen to live by, and to teach my kids the difference between fantasy and reality.

One of our jobs as bards of the modern age, is to expose hypocrisy and idiocy. Where I live, I see a lot of it.

Time to go to bed.

Mick