On the matter of who owns what: You will be happy to hear that agribusiness is in the process of "patenting" genomes of various vegetables, such as "corn." What does that mean? That it will be illegal to grow "corn" unless you have Ralston-Purina's permission. Cool, huh? Talk about good ole American business savvy. In teh early days of corporate plunder, it was determined that although you owned your back pasture, you did not own the ore under your back pasture, and if some enterprising corporation wanted to mine it, then you were destined to live on a swiss cheese. Towns collapsed, but the plutopigs who owned the mines didn't live there, so who cares? Corporations have already figured out that if you own the water, you can do what you please with it. Like bottle it and sell it to the East Indians who work in the plant and, coincidentally, now have dry wells. Cooler! If only some budding Ken Lay could figure out how to own air. Own air! Talk coolest!!!! PS: Regarding "shazam": As a former Captain Marvel/Billy Batson fan, I have to point out that Shazam was the magic word that made the latter into the former, not the name of the super... er. And the idea that Captain Marvel was a rip-off of Superman is about as ludicrous as the idea that Angelwhosit Jolie is a lip-off of Kim Bassinger. M