I told ya', Fred. Purdy smart, ain't she?

But danged, Nicole, at any given point between A and B you are only where you are relative to the departure point and the destination point. Yes, You have to keep your good eye on a star, but you alos must appreciate the "here-an-now-ness" of the journey.

The here-and-now-ness of this journey is that without AA, or AA-Lite, or something, we're allowing the pencil to break on that journey. And if it breaks in mid course then you can forget point B because, as for this little experiement our collective grade will be DNF (Did Not Finish).

I think we may just be getting to the point where we are going to have to agree to disagree. I understand your arguements. I think you understand mine. And now we're volleying rather than trying to find a middle ground.

Yeah, I have said that I would love nothing more than to not have AA becuase for that to happen in Bobert's perfect little world, that would mean that we would have collectively eliminated those K-12 variables that had kept minorities on the short end of the stcik...

Bobert