Shameless Waste of Ammunition

Seems awfully early in the season to be tossing out what is nearly certain to be the season's best post - and the preceding effort may well be the best entry in the history of this darkened corner of the blogworld. Hard act to follow. So, in keeping with my long-held theory (sort of a lazy man's Occam's Razor) that the easy path is generally the best, I'll just stop right here.