[Barlowmaker]

This was just some Christians meeting another Christian from a different sect. It was just a neighborly thing.

I read somewhere that President Bush subsequently left that meeting to visit a group of even more rustic Lancaster County citizens - wearing mastodon hides and hunting for giant ground sloths to spear and women from rival clans to seize.

Despite the fact that every Amish woman, when peeled, looks like Kelly McGillis ... I still think there's something a bit unsettling about them. I don't trust a man with a beard and no mustache.

[Amish with an attitude]

"I don't trust a man with a beard and no mustache"

Trust me. It makes drinking milkshakes much less messy.

[patriciaruth]

The best insurance of the human race against extinction should some huge disaster strike -- world wide plague, huge meteor strike, reverse polarity of magnetic fields, huge sun spot flare, whatever -- is that people come in lots of flavors and colors and cultures.

Having some people around who know how to survive without modern conveniences because they are raised that way is a plus for humanity. OTOH I'm not big on beards either.