Like Graham, I, too, lament the loss of family values and civility. The loss of those two things is indeed great. We are, it seems, entering a new dark age. The real question is, "Can a nation lose those things and still survive? I don't know. But the good news is that just as those treasures were gotten once, they can be gotten again, and in much the same way. The best place to start, of course, is inside our own skin, and inside our own homes, which seems a worthy project for '07.