...oh and GUEST, I am not inclined to feel humiliation when I don't know something; which happens quite often, I might add, both in terms of music and with regard to politics and a host of other topics. I value to breadth and depth of knowledge available to me in this "chat room" on all the subjects we cover in the course of our conversations. I'm only upset when I've inadvertantly offended folks I care about and I see that I have caused them distress, even when they deny it. (But it's harder to respond sincerely when that happens, I find.)

As for activism, my thirty years of social work activity only qualify me as an expert in one small place in the universe, in the piney woods of north florida....but Ann Arbor in the sixties has shaped my life irrevocably...peace...hg