Well, thanks, Bobert, but we are all real people. Still, thanks anyway.

Doug - I don't know whether or not Colin Powell is being hypocritical. He may well believe strongly in what he is doing. I just don't know. I do think that Harry Belafonte believes strongly in what he is saying and doing. I guess time will tell who had the better judgement on this or that matter. I hope so, anyway. We shall see.

I know that it is just plain old human nature that causes each one of us to see the good side of views that jibe well with our own...and the bad side of those that don't. Due to this, I honestly have compassion for most people I disagree with most of the time (except when I momentarily overreact emotionally to something)...and...I am fairly well aware of my own fallibility too. Like everyone else, I'm working with only partial information, and through the lens of my own prejudices and beliefs.

Like Harry Belafonte...and maybe like Colin Powell too...I call it passionately the way I see it, and hope that my vision is clear.

And so it goes...

- LH