I knew that when I posted a small reply the other day that it would open a can of worms, in the sense that it’s never a small discussion. I’ll post a longer and hopefully more detailed reply tomorrow. I’m gonna have to give some thought on your observation about the duality of race and Reed; obviously I never spent much time there, but I did have my own observations… Race issues in places like the Navy play out much differently on the surface… But I dunno, maybe one needs to apply differnt ‘lenses’ when looking at such vastly different structures, and maybe the underlying currents are actually different as aopposed to just more eloquently expressed or avoided…. I’ll get back to that too…

Right now, I have to figure out how to get one remote work with about 5 different pieces of equipment, each of a differnt brand and vintage (installed home theatre stuff for M’s family). This isn’t the best time to attempt to define what it is to be smart, f’ing POS remote…