ryan, it is good to hear your voice;



for my part it has been an incredibly interesting and sickening experience being on the recieving end of the news media here in France; i see both the french news accounts (le monde, le figaro, tv) and i see their counterparts in the us (nytimes, fox-news, cnn, washington post); after months of this i feel like my head is being slowly crushed between two ice-bergs;