Sir, I was very impressed with your definition of a skeptic....I will be forwarding it to my family, they will be much appreciative. My father was a Electrician's first mate on the first nuclear subs....during the cold war, he went under the polar caps, and was on several other 'secret missions'....he was a free thinker and was adament that my sister and I be informed decission makers in EVERY instance and that we understood what it was to stand up for what was/is right....I was even encouraged to question authority, respectfully, at a very young age and too this day, my sister and I adhere to this and have instilled it, to the best of our ability, in our kids