Now here's a comment to start or stop the day: <<The delusions of those who run English cricket spoil the game for the whole country, just as the delusions of those who run America spoil America. The difference is that, if the English had been able to send another 20,000 to bat against Australia, we'd have stood an even chance.>> That from Mark Steel on 'Bush and English cricket have a lot in common', that even someone who doesn't 'get' cricket can understand: http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_m_z/mark_steel/ article2140246.ece laughing to keep from crying... Doug Douglas Barbour 11655 - 72 Avenue NW Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9 (780) 436 3320 http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 Late night resurrection of a forgotten love, a vanished civilization, where the waning moon is the accusational eye of a discarded lover. . . . Love’s absence is still love, the heart a celestial wound. Christopher Dewdney