Thanks for the note, cris, and take your point. Just a small correction, Richard: At 7:30 AM -0500 12/1/2002, Richard Dillon wrote: >You don't see yourself has having an agenda, as standing >ideologically, as taking sides. No, that's untrue. My "side" just seems to be deeply unarticulated in the daily press, and unrepresented by the ideologies which seem to comprise your political world. As for the rest, I'm not entering that quagmire. A -- Alison Croggon Home page http://www.users.bigpond.com/acroggon/ Masthead http://au.geocities.com/masthead_2/