>Maybe that's why it's my least favorite UF episode ever? Too preachy,
>too self-righteous.

It's heavy-handed, yes, this I admit.

> And I will be very impressed if you can come up
>with an event or circumstance in the real world that this
>episode draws from.

The treatment of half-Viet, half-American kids in Vietnamese orphanages at the end of the war, most likely, athough you'd have to ask Martin Rose.

Ard Sumhenner
Ronin Research, Silicon Valley, CA