The Logic of a 6 year old:

So, this was just a joke that was forwarded to me, but I knew all you would like it... unfortunately they don't point out that fiscal responsibility can be achieved in other ways than selling your soul:

I was talking to a friend of mine's little girl, and she said she wanted to be President some day.

Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, 'If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?'

She replied, 'I'd give houses to all the homeless people.'

'Wow - what a worthy goal.' I told her, 'you don't have to wait until you're President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I'll pay you $50. 'Then I'll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward a new house.'

She thought that over for a few seconds 'cause she's only 6. And while her Mom glared at me, she looked me straight in the eye and asked, 'Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?'

And I said, 'Welcome to the Republican Party.' Her folks still aren't talking to me.

First day of School

Today is the first day of classes at StMU Law, which subsequently means that today was little Miss Parker's first day at school too.

Megan and I dropped her off at 7am this morning and her teacher/caretaker Diane was very nice and there was only one other little boy named London there when we left. They may have 4 infants under supervision, or 2 people can supervise 10, but the classroom I think only has capacity of 8. I may be wrong.

Parker will stay in this room until she is 6 months or self-propelled, whichever comes first, then to a room with all the 6-12 months.

I almost made it all the way to the car before I broke down.

The Law of Big Numbers - eg., Cars

Here in California we listen very intently on what might be coming down the road re: automobiles. Like all of America, we love our cars. We bought so may hybrids that the car pool lanes are clogged with them. We are one of the lead testing grounds for electric only cars. Likewise for the fuell cell hydrogen cars.

The argument is that if we take those fossil-fuel cars off the road, then roughly HALF of the global warming gasses will go with them.

Sounds great on paper. This is what I wondered: take hydrogen fuel cell cars, for example. Estimates in America point to 125 Million to 150 Million cars on the road, here in the USA. Fuel cell cars supposedly only have water vapor, droplets, whatever, as an exhaust. Okay, what is going to happen to the atmosphere with 150 Million cars spewing water vapor into the atmosphere? I'm guessing there will be places with high humidity that have never seen humidity before. Maybe more cloudy days? Wet streets? Seriously, I'm wondering if anyone has stopped to think that soon enough, water vapor will start to become some kind of runaway pollutant.

And about electric cars. My house is on the electric grid. If me, and all my neighbors, had electric cars and we al charged them from home, wouldn't we need increased capacity to get that electricity to the house? Would the utility co's have to come out and put in new cables? Or would we just smoke the system that is here? And what happens when California's notoriously sketchy grid goes down? That's a lot of demand for electricity (which, btw, isn't growing on trees).

I'm not saying that we shouldn't move forward. I'm just wondering if 150 Million "solutions" won't cause their own kind of problems.

Eric
(author's note: at the time of this writing I have a Prius and, while it is a great car, it's not for everyone. There's no way you could replace a work truck with a Prius).

Battle

Here's a little claymation that Beth and I put together while we were in San Fransisco at Zeum. Justin edited the clip, adding the title and sound. Check it out and let me know what you think. We hurried through it and wish we would have had a little more time, so it's a little rough around the edges.