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