I had occasion to work on a rally last Saturday with a very nice, bright (and very pretty, but *married* unfortunatedly!) woman who I will guess is about 35-40. Mother of three. Owner with her spouse of a small, specialized manufacturing business. Not lacking in the smarts department.

She saw my "Bush/Orwell '04" bumper sticker and said "Ummmm. War of the Worlds, right?"

I had another conversation with an acquaintance -- a very smart guy in a lot of respects -- who made note of the book that I was reading -- Seymour Hersh's latest "Chain of Command: The road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib" -- and asked about it. I said "Yeah, Seymour Hersh, the muckraker who pretty much made his name over My Lai".

This gent, graduated from high school in 1981, asked "What's My Lai?".