MAX... Nine months later after this little hiatus of yours---mark my words--------here comes the Mudcat's own Baby Boom generation!!! (We were all so bored that sex was all that could placate us while you were "Moving On", as hank Snow used to say.)---------- And twenty years f-u-r-t-h-e-r down the road, they come of age and, like we remnants of the 60s generation, they challenge Emperor George W. Bush. For the first time since his coup put him in as dictator of the U.S.A., there is, finally, a group capable of possibly deposing the man. A genetically engineered Al Gore clone (one with balls and a will to live) will lead them in the revolution that will restore Socialism. It will be a democracy and everyone will, by then, be fully able see the validity of Socialism. It will be freely chosen in an election, and put back on the front burner where it has always belonged. --- And then, fianlly, health care for all in the world can and will become a reality. Dick Cheney will recieve his THIRTIETH artificial heart and retire to the Smithsonian Institution as an exhibit in their famous tribute to Madame Toussaud's Wax Museum as an example of a human being turned into an artform. He will replace their "PORTRAIT OF DORIAN GRAY". (The original artist, Ivan Albright's heirs will protest---but to no avail.)

Art Thieme