Ides, I've long contended that all our fellow "Merkins" (as our esteemed pretzeldent mispronounces it) that preceeded us are watching eagerly to see how we handle these challenges. After more than 6 years of being in the resistance, sometimes, I reflect about them and all they accomplished without our technology. Perhaps we really need to pamphlet America - who knows, it worked well for them!

And before someone tells me that the net is the "new pamphlet," a 2005 PEW Internet & American Life Project "sixty-eight percent of American adults, or about 137 million people, use the internet, up from 63% one year ago. Thirty-two percent of American adults, or about 65 million people, do not go online, and it is not always by choice...At the other end of the spectrum, 53% of home internet users have high-speed access, creating a new divide among internet users."

Those 65 million Americans who don't go online are 47.36% of the 123,480,019 votes cast in 2004, and they're getting their news and views from other sources: TV, squawk radio, papers, clergy...

...and concerned friends and neighbors who reach out to them...could that be you?