The number of threads currently demonizing the American government and more personally President Bush truly astounds me.

Of course, I suspect that you could find a BBS or two where the number of threads heroicizing the present American gov/administration and Bush personally would astound *me*.

Certainly changing the menu in the House can account for no more wasted money than the amount of lost productivity related to most of our post counts.

While this BBS, perhaps unlike some others, certainly leans toward the anti-administration/Bush/war perspective, I don't see the communication as juvenile, uninformative or unproductive in the way that I see "Freedom Fries" to be. (Poor Belgium, unacknowledged as the leader in diced potato technology!!) And where else are you hearing directly from citizens of several other counties about their perspective on our country's course? Oh, if you find a BBS where citizens of other countries are begging us to invade Iraq, please post the URL!

Personally, I am distressed that an immediate combination of both work and the prospect of no work has made it hard for me to follow the several recent political threads, never mind respond to them. That may change soon! In the meantime, I offer you a link to a radio show (those left-wing NPR shows!) that I think spent some quality time illuminating aspects of the Bush administration and perhaps why you and I would strongly disagree about the administration's admirability/despicability score. It is a recent installment of "To the Point". Bush-specific content begins at about 07:58. My apologies to streaming media purists!! It is in Real format!! (dang, all these NPR shows seem to be in Real. Some type of conspiracy?)

Be back soon!