> It is difficult for me to see how off-handedly referring to the outcome > of the 2000 election as a 'coup' can result in anything other than a long > and tedious flamewar, accompanied by an inevitable and simultaneous > coarsening and lowering of the standards of discourse hereabouts, and must > therefore ask you nicely to refrain. But refering to Dallas in '63 wouldn't create the same outcome? Just curious....<grin> Chris (Who agrees with Bill Hicks in regards to Dallas in '63....:) "Blind man's night is music to the deaf, and everyone has *two* paths, not one, whence comes tragedy and comedy, forsooth and damn straight, son." - "The Gypsy" - Brust & Lindholm