Oh, and welcome to Free Republic!
You guys are GREAT!!! Thanks for the uplifting posts. Live is hard here in New York. Yesterday I went to see William Kristol at New School University (I go there, but that's an entirely different issue) and he practically had to apologize for being conservative among the groaning New Yorker Mag and retired leftist intelectuals present. Awful. I got a picture of myself with him. Here it is: (total vanity post)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bklyn/1528538/
Thansk for the welcomes!!!! Much appreciated.