Correction

Since posting that lovely letter on the 10th of March I have learned that it was not written by Bette Midler but I still do not know who wrote those lovely thoughts but I would like to thank him or her for them.

On the other end of the spectrum we have the horrible violence in Madrid which killed 200 and injured over 1000 people. Basque separatists were initially believed to be behind the murders but it didn't really fit their M.O. especially since they have denid it. Some evidence now seems to point towards Muslim extremists and whether or not al Queda is the source is to be determined but it opens a whole new chapter in the continuing demise of the human race as being a viable life form for this planet. I doubt that man will be around long enough to worry whether or not this planet goes the way of Mars and becomes a desert without enough water to sustain anything. No, we will all be dead long before that happens.

You cannot even disagree with people anymore without having them give you the middle fingered salute or worse. One or more letter writers to the editors of local newspapers recently have complained about reactions to their anti-Bush bumper stickers, etc. So they are not for Bush. So what! Is there any logical reason why a person can't let another have a difference of opion without shouting at them, calling them names, making rude gestures, or worse?

The world is mad. I am really glad that I am not twenty something as I think that those people who will be around for the next fifty or sixty years are going to have an extremely rough life and all because of man's inhumanity to man. The main problem in this battle is too many people feel that "I am right and you are wrong". Fundamentalism, whether it be religious or political, is extremely dangerous and is tearing this world apart. Unfortunately some people either don't see that or worse yet, don't care. And frankly, I don't see any end to this without outside intervention.