Art,

Just to add my two cents to what everyone else is saying, please don't start denying us the benefit of your thoughts and opinions on politics and life (and the universe and everything). Many if not most of the songs in the DT data base are political in some way. I'd guess a great many of us got interested in folk music precisely because we found a poetic expression of our own socio-political beliefs. It was largely from that starting point many years back that I began to discover the simple beauty, and honest expression in all the music everyone here loves.

I've always regarded you as one of our foremost interpreters of the music and one of the most insightful. Don't be put off by cranks and trouble makers. I've heard folks say "It takes all kinds to make a world" but I have a suspicion that there are some kinds it just doesn't take. I saw a sign once that said something like "Non carborundum illegitimi" (Don't let the bastards wear you down), and I offer that advice to you and everyone here.

- Mark