Essence of Rush
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(Don't get it? I'll explain. This page has no substance. No textual information, no sound, no QuickTime movies, not even a colored background. No value, no beauty, no meaning. It's just a crass money making scheme. The whole purpose of this page's existence is to make money, and there's no more depth to it than that. Now do you get it?)
Additional, unnecessary commentary:
I thought of doing an "Essence of Liddy" page as well, but since this is a family oriented site I didn't think it would be appropriate to put up a live audio and video feed from a high school boys locker room. Also, I don't have any good images of criminals whose federal badges didn't save them from "head shots" (hopefully in the future, though...).
I also considered putting up an "Essence of Dr. Laura" page. It would've been an interactive page, with a place to input your dilemma and send it off for analysis. Of course, the response would mischaracterize your problem, terminate your connection, and then use your request for help as an opportunity to deliver to the world a stirring but unrelated message about the importance of personal responsibility, simple decency, and containing one's selfishness. The technical difficulties I ran into weren't in writing the interactive CGI scripts, but in finding a way to encapsulate the strange mix of such an important message as delivered by such an inappropriate messenger.
Although I don't listen to Rush, Gordon Liddy, or Dr. Laura any more (they get old soooo fast), while traveling recently I heard the Mary Matalin show. The interview she was conducting that hour was so important that its text ought to become the body of an "Essence of America" page. Instead of creating such a page, I'll just provide the link to some of the relevant information. This is what America has become.
Even more blather:
I hate to clutter this page even more, but when I learned I'd earned this Top 1% award, I couldn't resist adding it to the page. There's a delightful irony here! Disinformation within disinformation; it reminds me of one those commie dolls! (Whoever handed me this laurel must've visited the Essence of Rush site before I added the fine print about other talk shows; they wouldn't have liked the infanticide link!)