I have met Jeff on his turf (Ranger, TX). Best described as a curmudgeon that does not suffer fools gladly - and one who has lived enough of life to have earned the privilege of writing what he means - and meaning what he writes. I was in Texas on business, I had a free evening. It was only 94 miles from where I was to Ranger. In Texas, that is errand distance.

Me using the S word was chosen for shock-value, true. We are well-and-truly in dire straits - and without intervention from more enlightened minds, the United States will be seriously degraded, more so than now, certainly. We are averaging over two serious incidents per month, now. And the perpetrators somehow feel entitled to commit them. Worse, their behavior is defended all-to-often. When the swamp overflows in the Nation's Capitol, all the slime in the hinterlands feels entitled to come out and play.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA