Friends, Freepers, Lurkers, Newbies, Trolls, Americans all, attend: For I shall for once be serious. I have spent much of my free time at other sites, more left-leaning than centrist, but where I have some respect and some decent relations. I have been arguing with them non-stop, and it has been crazy-making. Here's a (close) parody of how it goes: Leftist: Dell makes great buses! Me: Buses? Um, last I checked, Dell doesn't manufacture buses or any other of their subcomponents - they purchase all of that from subcontractors and then assemble a damn good computer... Leftist: Computers? Man, you...