Barry-- You've violated one of the dicta of Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, which, if the irony were subtracted, could be just as easily a pronouncement of the Bush regime: "It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them" (_Following the Equator_, Oxford MT, 195). --LH