just to interject - this seems like a quibble you two could do privately, but I must say, Guests should be able to post to any thread unafraid of being called names and vilified as cowardds for not posting otherwise. I can see valid reasons for someone not using thier name, say if many of you knew them personally and would have to deal with them in the future. Disagreement with statements made shouldn't devolve into ad guestinem attacks (could't say ad hominem, cause it might be ad feminem!).

On a related track, however, to this non-musical, but to me worthwhile thread, I found it rather disheartening to hear Mr. Ambrose describe his new book, now that he is dying of cancer and hasn't long to live, as an attempt to set matters right, especially in respect to his opposition to the war in Vietnam. How can he actually think, now that even McNamara acknowledges his mistake (barely, but an acknowledgement of sorts), that the US was right in that conflict? Or that he and others was wrong in its criticism of the government? I would love to hear his explanation. It makes as little sense to me as the much offered chestnut, that is just a lie, gussied up to be passed of as some self-evident truth, that 'If your young and not a liberal you have no heart, and if your old and not a conservative you have ne head.' Bullshit. If you are a conservative, at any age, you are by definition a hypocrite. You want to be allowed to do anything you want and restrict others from doing whatever they want. You have no heart nor no head, no sense nor no soul. I feel a somg coming on! May have to write another!