"I sure hope the people on TV don't start talking to me or handing me things through the screen. ;-)" Jim, I know you meant this in jest, and I am not offended; but my father, in his last years of life, became paranoid. He truly believed the FBI was keeping him uner surveillence, watching him through his TV. He could see only blurry images through one eye. However, he was convinced he could see the agents watching him from FBI headquarters. I gave up arguing the fallacy of his belief, because he would bcome very belligerent about it. Once, while waiting to see the therapist I got him to visit, he "saw" a group of agents walking along a rise outside the hospital. Of course, they were not there. I merely told him to report this to his therapist. He was given medication, but I'm not sure he took it regularly. We had an uneasy truce on his paranoia; I didn't call him on it, and he stopped telling me about it. We got along fine after this. Maybe we need to take this approach on black Confederates. Stan