drifting a little off topic but since these were touched on (global warming and mentoring the young), i've tried pointing out the fallacies of global warming to my high school age daughter for several years now but i'm an idiot and her teachers are geniuses. just last week a P-38 Lightning landed here on its way somewhere, having been resurrected off greenland under 268 FEET of ice in the early '90's. tried to get her to ask her genius teachers to explain how global warming could dump an fresh 268 feet of ice on greenland in just 4 decades but she wouldn't do it.
as to mentoring, see the above paragraph: it's darned difficult to mentor a generation that doesn't want it. you can't beat this stuff into them with a stick tho in some cases i'd love to try. i'm sure many would be receptive but most of that generation are a result of the social climate they've grown up in. parents don't have near the influence they had when kids were raised on farms, the way the founding fathers intended.
we have a culture now that thinks the mighy oprah and the broads on the view are paragons of intelligence. and we're doomed.
roger
