Thanks. You've acted exactly as expected.

Whether or not you believe what I read about Cheney is irrelevant. If you REALLY want to know about it badly enough, you'll search for it. If you're just here to get into an Internet pissing contest, you'll keep badgering me for a link and berating me when I don't provide one. What is relevant is that I believe it.. and on top of that, I highly approve of it. I respect true intelligence. That may seem heartless to you, our own vice-president betting against us, but that's strong survival instinct there. Prospering no matter which way the wind blows.

See, your cheap shots aside, I've realized that I'm only smart enough to know I'm not smart enough. No one needs to recognize my brilliance, because there isn't any. Besides, why would someone who wants to divorce the human race and move out into the country to be basically a comfortable hermit even CARE if another human recognized their brilliance or lack thereof?

The majority of the human race, myself included, are no better than cattle. Watch enough nature shows and you'll see our behavio(u)r mirrored all over the place. Murdering for resources, murdering for territory, murdering because one animal's scent is different from another's. There's more baby-killing in an episode of Meerkat Manor than in the fevered imaginings of a hippie's idea of Vietnam. You're all going to find ways to kill each other off eventually. It's in your blood. It's in my blood. Eventually it'll be my turn, too. Why not have a laugh at the herd animals who are ahead of me in line to the slaughterhouse, and laugh at the herd animals behind me because they'll be walking in more shit than I am?

I have no faith in the human race.. but I have faith in life itself. We can be eradicated just as easily as we've infested the place.. but life will go on. Life has continued even when nothing was left alive on the surface of the planet. Life can and will go on even if we're a relative dead-end. Life doesn't care if we vote for one of three incompetent half-wits who couldn't lead a snake to a house full of rats. Thank Mythbusters for showing that more than just the cockroaches will be alive once we take ourselves out of the picture.

Pc = Pc + 1 (would be a lot easier if I didn't have to fill 50 posts just to do something nice for a few people here.. then I'd have never posted any of this.. seriously.. do you think I'm not aware that my opinions are at odds with, umm, most of humanity?)

I await your next batch of derision. Should be an excuse for one more post.