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Sorry for the tardy reply to question about whether I forced junior to like AC/DC, but I took the dog for a late night walk, bumped into a couple of neighbors with their dogs and we all ended up at the local for a jar or two.

Short answer is that the house has always been full of music and books, and I don't think the little woman and I have "forced" anything on Squirt -- except by example of hard work, respect for property rights, and not making life bad for his fellow humans unless they deserve it.

I'm modestly proud of the kid. Gets great marks, studies hard without being told and is fiercely competitive. He's also the one kid in his class to have nominated Ronald Reagan as America's greatest president (we live in New York, where liberals are a plague upon the ground), so I guess the habit of right-thinking from us.

But as to the esteem in which he holds AC/DC, it's not a passion -- like his current taste for Eminem and lyrics about ghetto life -- but he likes 'em all right. So I don't know if his tastes are nature or nurture, but I reckon it's a bit of both.