25 JUL, 2003 - 1410 CDT My long deceased father, when he was a federal bureaucrat for a few years following WWII, used say when he was about to go to Washington, that he was taking a trip to the "city of truth and light". I tend to regard this as being the height of irony. Or as someone else said a long time ago, we have the best politicians that money can buy in DC. 73 - Dick, W9GIG