>In contrast, many LBO-talkers are unfortunately half-baked 
>ideologues, often undemocratically tailing the imperial media, 
>instead of following the masses; then again, opinions of LBO-talkers 
>matter little, for they have _zero_ influence on American politics, 
>especially on foreign policy, so actually there's no point in 
>discussing them, except to kill time.
Oh, we missed you Yoshie; life just wasn't the same without these pungent reminders of our deficiencies.
Doug