ESL_IN_ASIA,

When I first began reading your epic, I was inclined to empathize with your middle-age dilemma, for I too had been at the top of my former career -- in this case, music -- and suddenly found myself with no choice but to accept (even greet) the inequities of the ESL game for the sake of feeding my family. However, I soon noticed that, like so many others these days, you have been placing the blame for your ENTIRE misfortune on non other than George Bush. Of course, it has already been proven (by one of our board colleagues, no less) that you chose to accuse the wrong political party, let alone hombre! Despite my own deeply negative feelings for both Messers. Bush and Cheney, I care even less for their opposition. B-U-T, when I read of your likening George Bush to Adolf Hitler, I find that I must register my vehement protest.

I don't know exactly how old your are, sir, but I've been on the scene long enough to have witnessed (as a young kid) the years just following WWII. It was a time when refugees fresh out of the Fhrer's "playpens" were piling into New York City by the thousands. I even recall once having been on the "D-train" from the Bronx and asking my mommy about the funny-looking NUMBER tattoo on the wrist of a child sitting across from us. She quickly shushed me up with no reply. When I was old enough to savvy such things, I began my own research into the entire issue and very quickly learned of man's unspeakable inhumanity toward his fellow. I saw the gruesome photos from Dachau, Buchenwald and Auschwitz ... body heaped upon body ready for the furnaces. All of this, as we have learned, was planned, marketed, and executed by only ONE man -- Chancellor Hitler. He damned near destroyed an entire race of humans. What I'm driving at is that to compare George Bush with a m*%h#!f*&k#! like Hitler is not only unfair but moronic! I don't care for the US's Iraqi involvement and a dozen other things for which George Bush & Dick Cheney are directly responsible, but we are still a democratic nation -- albeit much maligned of late -- with solid intentions of continuing to promote peace on earth and good will toward men (... and women!). From time to time, a few of our methods may seem a bit "strange," but, not to worry. Unlike SOME OTHER PLACES, here there are no gruesome concentration camps awaiting you should you be other than a WASP or hold political, religious, or even moral opinions differing from the norm. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph ... I think you owe President Bush an apology!

Keep on flipping those Azars, man ... they're not as greasy as either the burgers or the fries!

The Arrogant One