Better be careful boys
about what you say or do.
Your right can turn out wrong
and your wrong can turn out true.

So there I was argueing with tsuwm and fallible and faldage and etaoin about the relative merits of Science fiction writer "James P. Hogan" (I stopped reading Science Fiction back when I became bewitched by R. A.Laferty because after Lafferty, all else was pablum.) when tsuwn out of the blue suggested that I read "Inherit The Wind" in order to get a proper literary handle on Hogan, so I went to the library to check the book out. I did, but I didn't read the book.

Instead I remembered the Google Goggle thread started by Plutarch that gave chat to the coming Internet Library that in a few years will allow unrestricted access to 150 million books. This gave me an idea...'til then, Milo - stupid, why not take advantage of the interlibrary loan program already in effect and ask for an obscure book by R.A. Lafferty?
I did, and the University of Geogia sent it, and I never did read Hogan.

But see how things work! Now I will share a Christmas thought (sorta) that Lafferty wrote in his 1971 book "The Devil Is Dead".
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"Don Lewis and Joe Cross were people who belonged, belonged with such as Finnegan and Anastasia, belonged with good people everywhere.

Harry Scott, Art Emery, and Chris McAbney were people who do not belong, the other sort of people. There are only two sorts of people in the world, and they are these two sorts. Unless you understand this, you belong to the wrong sort, and you can go to Hell with Harry and Art and Cris and nobody will care: you belong in Hell."
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And so, dear friends from me and Lafferty and Finnegan and Anastasia and Don and Joe,

Merry Christmas to the right sort of you, and as for the rest of you...well, you know what you can do...but have a good day!