"For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many years. If this performance is devoid of all egoism, if its guiding motive is unparalleled generosity, if it is absolutely certain that there is no thought of recompense and that, in addition, it has left its visible mark upon the earth, then there can be no mistake."

   go here to read about the Man Who Planted Trees (not Johnny Appleseed)...

We should be entirely encouraged by the anthrax terrorist attack (yes, of course, terrorist attack) on the publishing offices of AMI in Boca Raton FL a week or so back for three reasons:

1) The terrorists were incompetent.  If this is as good as they can do with anthrax, I'm not rushing out to get the vaccine anytime soon and miss key baseball playoff games.

2) The terrorists are dumb.  They targeted this publishing facility, called AMI for American Media, Inc., because they believed they were attacking the actual American Media, the whole American Media!      lmao

3)  The terrorists were doing us a cultural favor.  AMI is nothing but a supermarket tabloid consortium consisting of the following: National Enquirer, the Sun, the Globe and Star.  Last time I checked, each and every one of them was spawning the likes of mutant aliens to conquer the earth, werevolves to suck on sweet little girls' necks, and sex-changing jock crotch blobfungus. I'd rather take my chances on defeating turban-touting madmen plotting in the desert sun than taking on the more formiddable task of slaying the monster dragons created by AMI.