I don't typically read the news magazines, but my mom foisted a copy of the new issue of Newsweek on me today (she seems to think that reading about the "dangers" of sleep deprivation will somehow miraculously result in my getting more sleep), and I discovered a remarkably cogent piece by Anna Quindlen on the whole Pledge flap ... it is one of the clearest statements of what's really behind the noise ... politics and religion mixing into the most noxious of brews! This is available on-line at the following ... http://www.msnbc.com/news/776927.asp