I heard about a man that went to see his doctor because he was feeling absolutely terrible. The doctor gave him a careful examination, left the room to look at some tests, came back in with a very somber expression on his face, and said: "Sir, I don't know how to break the news to you, but you have rabies and you're going to die very soon."

The man very calmly got out a piece of paper and began furiously writing. The doctor said: "What are you doing, making out your will?" He said: "Oh no, I'm writing out a list of people I'm going to bite."

I'm sure that more than a few of us today have just such a list in the back of our minds in case something like that were to ever happen to us. I'm sure that there are more than a few hearts here today that have become fertile fields for the root of …