>After browsing through most of the replies of this thread, and being a contributor, and maybe a partial cause (for which I apologize), I think the net result of this thread has really been productive, eye opening, and a true learning experience. :(
Yes, the dead horse continues to survive. I think we must starve it to death to really kill it forever, but I know that it's hard to resist contributing sustenance to it :)
The Anonymous Bureaucrat,
and frankly, quite content not to be
a member of either major US political party.