"Is there something in the water?" - No, Mickma, it's KoolAid. Go ahead, drink, you'll feel better. Trekkie stop talking about hot urine or we'll have to banish you to the GS corner :-) Tis indeed heartening to see such agreement among the masses though if Peng and Anton agree any more they may come to blows. TuxBird is right though, people bitch and moan and then go right on sucking the Rendo tit for whatever bitter dregs they can get. I think the kinda stones to do otherwise went out with disco or something. "If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation. Vlav Havel"

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken