pdq--ouch. I don't think I've ever been remembered and utterly beaten in one breath before.

   Ebbie, I can't help but agree. I've never felt the sort of uncritical support for any liberal president that many people seem to feel for a 3rd-rate conservative one. At best. Even if I believed in what he was doing I'd wish he'd make some passable effort to put it across to the people who disagree--he's not a king and even if he was his doings could still be undone. He's pushing his luck, it seems to me.

Nicole C just for a laugh sometime why don't you help me out? Yes yes yes you mountain flower of andalusia but, you know, I'm trying to figure how people look at it otherwise.

For one thing, hanging on to money isn't so easy as it sounds, and the paranoid-seeming fears of losing their money, among wealthy people I know, aren't really unfounded. It's remarkably easy to lose. Money has effect even if you just park it somewhere. Some of us might as well admit we don't especially seek it partly because we don't want the responsibility, while we're content to judge people who have to do something with it. It may in practical terms effect the whole equation--To be wealthy is to do, and to do is to be. For better or worse, of course.