Wow, the things I can learn on this off topic, wayward, sub-section of my internet fishing bulletin board.

I don't know jack about Jamaica. I didn't know about Marley's music until after he was dead. But I enjoy it. I don't get dreadlocks and think they look filthy, but to each his own I figure. I'm glad I didn't previously know Jamaica is a murder capital. My youngest daughter spent the first quarter of 2002 there on her Watson Fellowship after college.

I saw a sorta' documentary movie about Jamaica about 6 years ago that described how the US and UK destroyed the agricutural base and economy of Jamaica (made it a dumping ground for surplus US ag products), with the UK continuing to buy bananas to salve their guilt complex for being an accomplice to economic terrorism, and putting the country into one doomed World Bank economic plan after another, and both the US and UK benefit from the port city duty free sweat shops. It was a swell movie; made me feel like blowing up an international bank.

Jamaica can grow and use all the pot they want. I think they should make it a national industry and export as much of it to the USA as both a favor and an act of economic retribution.

That about sums up all I know or feel about Jamaica. I might look for some of that reggae tho.

Sg