Ladies and Gentlemen, or whatever your inner child decrees you to be, I, THE Michael, Lord Holder and Chief spaghetti maker here at Pendragon Hold, have a retraction to make. It seems that during my last post, I used the word "maggots" in a less-than-positive reference towards Republicans. This was brought to my attention by one of my loyal subscribers, who remarked, and I quote, "ignorant, God-fearing maggots"??? Michael! Michael! What have you got against maggots? Maggots have a stinky but necessary job and should not be used as a metaphor. We'd be over our heads in decay without them. Get politically correct and publish an apology and retraction."

Sigh.........My faithful readers, he is right, I should apologize to these poor creatures who we owe so much to, whom without our world would certainly stink so bad we could not exist without gallons of French perfume or High Karate after-shave to cover the stench of rotting garbage and road kill that we humans leave scattered across this great country of ours.

I am sorry.

But as far as you piss-ants showing up at your congressional representatives question and answer sessions on health care, simply to insult them, disrupting the forums so that ordinary citizens can't ask a serious question, in a sad attempt to derail health care reform...........well, let's just say "maggot" is much to kind a word.