>>Having said that, you might want to check other online sources - a person whom you believe might be "currying favor" might actually be serving some curry as a favor. To use the old Nursery Rhyme, there are many ways to make a garden grow...even if it does (quite contrary) include a few fancy Vista Logos all "in a row" :)
>>(Think I dropped enough hints) :)
Sheesh, Of course I get the poetic allusion- but cannot connect that to the theme.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1