Hi, Frank!

"The untouchables in the Babbling Classes need to be aware that these days, when they look through the microscope at us bacteria, the bacteria are looking back."

Were you referring to the "untouchables" reference? If it were capitalized, that would refer to Eliot Ness and his gang of Prohibitionists, and I don't think that's what he meant. No, I think the reference was to "untouchables" in the Hindu context, that is, the lowest of the low, those at the very bottom of the social scale, the ones who clean out the latrines and deal with animal products. The unclean. In other words, sanitation workers and meat processors. Muckrakers. Does the name "Upton Sinclair" ring a bell? I can't say as I mind that association.

Could it be the phrase "Babbling Classes"? Sticks and stones may break my bones, but brooks will never hurt me. That's kinda cute. Like Yankee Doodle.

Is it the image of an untouchable using a microscope? Well, that's just silly. Hindu untouchables would never be allowed anywhere near something so closely associated with honorable professions, and the Untouchables' favorite tools were axes and firearms.

Then it must be conservatives as bacteria. George W. Bacillus? Is one to infer that there is a vaccine for this?

Conservatives really must stop looking down upon themselves this way. ;D

Best--
Mary Anne