I have always enjoyed both Eric's and Omar's posts. I find both usually very illuminating. I wish though they'd stop butting heads and beating their chests and get back to argumentation. Both are wrong most of the time, btw, but that's for another post or rather many posts. Luckily though I've erased them all. I'm surprised that Eric with his poet's sensitivity to language doesn't realize just how cartoonish he makes many of his posts when he restorts to calling terrorists "monsters", "thugs," "goons", etc. The word "terrorist" apparently has no 'bad guy' cachet with Eric. I'm not surprised really, not with that clown Dubya saying through his smirk: "Heh, thair terrorist, doncha getit? Thair the bad guys, thair eavil." Uh oh, there I go with one of my cartoons. Ah, well, Eric, shouldn't do that if he wants to be taken seriously. I'm surprised that Omar with his experience of so many difference cultures isn't more adept at handling Eric's cultural biases. Could it be because of Omar's own cultural biases? Who knows? The Green Shadow, but who else? Anyway, give it a break, guys. We're all as stupid as Andy accuses us of being, but oh so much more fun than she has ever imagined. Mike Geary Memphis