When your wife buys you a new riding lawnmower, leaf blower, snow blower etc, you consider it a pretty good deal. But, if you buy her a vacuum cleaner or dish washer, etc you are in trouble. What's up with that? Not that, after forty years of marriagen I'd ever do THAT again!

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.