Rick: I had to laugh at your post and the response it drew. It so closely parallels the "we're *ucked, *ucked, totally *ucked" thread of a year (or has it been two?) ago when I asked you to give newbies a reason not to kill ourselves now. Good times, good times… How I miss the innocent, indignant me.

And yet I am ever so grateful for that post. It took the edge of my apathy, helped me find the NOOOOOO! within myself and realize that unless I look at the many truths (the good, the bad and the ugly) of PD I cannot possibly make peace with my apparent path and redirect the energy I had been spending on denial to action (such as it is).

Enter Laura stage left. You are the shining knight in the dark nights of our PD battles! You never cease to amaze me. Keep it coming, girlfriend!