1) I agree with the below quoted thoughts of Steve Smith -- and 2) Duh ... how stupid am I? .. I thought the joke about Idaho was a reference to gardening -- as in "hoe" ... maybe Doug needs to get out there with the soil more! Or go to Germany for a vacation where it is legal .. Peggy
Scott Smith: Either way, everyone thinks everyone else is trying to destroy humanity (and life, the universe, and everything)! If the stakes are this high, why are we screaming and running in every direction at once? Wait... isn't that what we humans (primates, mammals, vertebrates) do? What possible survival value is there in that? The canoe is rocking and tipping madly and we are all rushing to see how far out the side we can hang our bodies to try to balance the "idiots" hanging out the other side. Anyone who's fallen out of a canoe knows that a good strategy when things get tippy is to move to the center and drop down low, not shriek loudly as we manically try to obtain a dynamic balance with the other shrieking occupants. ....... In the spirit of hunkering down in the center of the canoe... I think I should dig out those 5 year old vegetable seeds and start patiently doing germination tests. Then I should start preparing an area inside my south facing windows to sprout some starts. In about a week, the soil will be ready for some light tilling and I could plant those peas and an early crop of greens outside and start getting ready to put in the starts mid-May. Nah... I think I'll go to the Hummer store and see if the prices are finally down enough that I can finally trade my 30 yr old 40MPG Civic in on... I deserve to ride in style. I am, after all, one of Mother Nature's most special children! Gas is hovering at $2... no big deal. And the produce section is *full* of great green goodness shipped halfway across the planet, all shiny and wrapped up in cellophane, much prettier than anything I could grow myself. What was I thinking? Articles on big thinkers like Dyson get me all nostalgic sometimes.
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