Tensions are mounting, and things are getting down to the wire. Obviously we are not about to resolve our differences anytime soon, so I think it's best to lay our cards on the table, so we all know where we stand.

Unfortunately, I don't know where I stand.

On the one hand, I like honey dipped doughnuts, both raised and chocolate. On the other, I have a fondness for powdered bavarian creme doughnuts, too, and Boston creme doughnuts -- bavarian creme doughnuts with a chocolate frosted instead of powdered exterior -- are good when I'm feeling more resistant than usual to richness induced headaches.

Since it's obvious the doughnut hole proponents and the intact doughnut proponents must engage in bloody civil war to resolve their differences, yet I hold stake in both, I hope nobody minds if I wait until everybody else has stated their positions before I choose sides. After that time, I will quite happily choose what looks to be the winning side, renounce any claim to the other, fight valiantly for the good of my newly acquired cause, and hope I don't die. I'm a capitalist, after all, self-interested but not altogether selfish.