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Point well taken.

In the amazingly prescient movie "Demolition Man" starring Stallone and Bullock, the character Edgar Friendly played by Dennis Leary has a less elegant but no less telling rant about the Nanny State.

"According to Cocteau's plan, I'm the enemy, 'cause I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, and freedom of choice. I'm the kinda guy that likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs with the side-order of gravy fries?" I want high cholesterol! I wanna eat bacon, and butter, and buckets of cheese, okay?! I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section! I wanna run naked through the street, with green Jell-O all over my body, reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly may feel the need to, okay, pal?

I've seen the future. You know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin, sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing, "I'm an Oscar Meyer wiener."

I like the way you think. The two images of the future are indeed the same - and if you go to California, you can meet plenty of people in both expressions of it.

I also like your taste in music. Mongolian Khusugtun? Oh yeah!