[sionnsar]

I can't get any satisfaction here without a heart attack or stroke...mine...I'm not into that, thank you very much. If I am going to spend time and effort on being a thorn, I want to make sure that thorn is long, hard and indestructible.

In democratic strongholds (such as Seattle and WA), "satisfaction" is hard to come by. The triggers to our involvement might never be resolved; we can't address them directly and I sometimes doubt we will ever achieve "satisfaction."

But rather than providing a single long, hard and indestructible thorn, the goodwife and I appear as multiple small, sufficiently tough and definitely persistent thorns. We don't win all the battles (I really wish we could...) but we run up pretty good scores on most, puncturing lots of overinflated tyres along the way.

They know who we are. The last time the goodwife showed up to testify on some bill or another, she heard one of "them" whisper to another: "OMG, it's her!"

Heh. Yup. It is she.

[Monkey Face]

Then "her" has my vote!