Thank you for the kind words.   I wrote for the "Juneau Empire" for some time, yes, even for money.   The "Empire" even though in a more generally leftist town made an attempt at some objectivity, and affliction from which the Dispatch and its predecessor have never suffered.   I spent twenty-odd years dealing with dozens of people who were paid to hate me; writing here and enduring the slings and arrows of the amateurs isn't attractive.   I don't know how Jenkins does it.   And I'm way behind on personal insults and epithets; the lefties are far more prolific, but that's OK because they're "good people."