Horse puckey?Are you sure you have recovered from the sleep inducers?Good heavens–did I say Bismarck?  How stupid–I meant Hindenburg of course-dotage excuses all.I am mortified and shall flagellate  myself this very night with my portrait of Voltaire.MY point was simple–when people cease to believe that their current system of government serves theirneeds they seek to alter it–sometimes this leads to bloodshed.  Jefferson knew this and even seemed to encourage it and it is enshrined in our Declaration of Independence which tells us that we as a people have the right to alter or abolish the existing government and institute a new one.YOUR COMMENT ABOUT LETHARGY IS APT–WE ARE THAT.

My goodness–the exotic, the erotic, the arcane, the strange–what a place!

I understand.  Take two valium and have a cup of green tea.  Get a dull book about the Constitutional Convention, lie on the couch with a nice pillow and drift away.  Here it will be 16 degrees tonight and we will sleep with the dog.AdieuWillyD