Ya know, just to be OT for a sec. we have a guy like Melon on the Wire list. Sounding angry and bitter alot of the time. He's one of Wire's founding members in fact (since 1996.) After 4 years of reading some of his viatrol (he isn't like that all the time, "caustic" is a better word) I finally cornered him and asked him just WHAT WAS UP with him. I was esp interested b/c he had a LOT to say about Irish politcs. He didn't reply, but a bit later it came out that he had lost a close friend or relative to an IRA bomb. So I mailed him back and told him I sympathized, etc etc, but (politely) to PLEASE not be so..um...passionate aobut your pro-Paisley views. And you know what? Becuase i was sympathetic, he DID tone down. A bit. Now he reserves his viatrol for U2's "00's work (he considers the past 2 albums to be cop-outs
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The point: we don't really know about people, any more than what they choose to tell us, so don't go making blanket judgements.Or at least, don't go atacking THEM. Melon leans towards the left-wing side of the equation most of the time (and that's and understatment, Mel
--and hey, I have to admit, I share a lot of your views) and some have taken him out for that. Don't. Respect each other's views and don't attack people.
I have to say, though, Melon, that goes for you too. I HATE propaganda or blanket statements like "*#^$ America" etc. Just as i hate blanket judgements of people from the other side. SO EVERYONE: CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG???
*Ahem*.
Now, back OT....I do beleive that a happy marriage is the key to better health. Some of the time. other examples of couples who are both very much active and kicking and
all there" at an advanced age were Alec Guiness and his wife (RIP Obi-wan), who both lived into their 80's; Christopher Lee and his wife, both in their mid-80's and they may as well be 60; and Billy and Edith Graham, who aren't so hot medically but metnally theyre all there, and they're in their 80's too.
God belss the happy couple. I think that oic is the cutest thing I've ever seen (outside of that one of Bono in the Boston Barnes and Noble smiling at that baby of course.)