> Max Sawicky wrote, > > >shagging debutantes. The bottom line is they > >can't stand to think about their own lives and > >the real problems of the mundane world, so > >they are drawn to fantasy. To which Tom Walker, in a rare moment of unalloyed yeehaw, replied: > I couldn't agree more. Really now, gents, must the opposite of A always be Z? It seems to me that the left has suffered some pretty bizarre cults of personality in its time. Can't the admiration of a famous person's good qualities be accepted as more than a subconscious evasion of one's troubles? Generations of black children have been given George Washington Carver as a role model (no points for _de rigueur_ tirades about his name); would you prefer they get Farrakhan or Shaque O'Neill? Get the idea? > >And I'd gladly pay to see a jacquerie. Hollywood will be happy to oblige you, provided you go home when it's over. valis Occupied America "People don't eat in the long run, Senator. They eat every day." -- Harry Hopkins