On 9/25/2010 7:18 PM, ablainey at aol.com wrote: > I have only just started to wade in. I can already see that a few will > follow and we will soon see '*Heismanists*' on the news. Gore Vidal wrote a rather good bleak novel on this topic, MESSIAH, back in, um, 1954. On the other hand, he didn't kill himself. Damien Broderick