You're a good writer, Reg, but that post proved you're a better friend.

Messy: "Little doubt your conscience is in tact, and political correctness has gotten us nowhere as a species, it seems, but into a hotter pot. That slow-heated pot where even among the most sentient of frogs faces nights alone with thoughts she or he will barely survive, life intact, to open eyes and take a breathe and manage another sunrise on an in industrially toxic horizon."

Methinks the board could enjoy a respite and wallow a little in Walt Whitman's observation that music is the universal language of mankind. (I think it was Whitman.) Do you think that the vibrations of music and ensuing spirituality seen here would ever keep an ISIS attendee from unsheathing his throat-cutting sword? Is religion an unsurmountable obstacle for our go-around on this planet?

http://oregonmusicnews.com/2014/08/16/beloved-festival-enlightenment-music-still-lot-music/