Greetings friends and welcome to the weekend! I’ve been traveling most of today but here are a few notes which would be better characterized as the ramblings of an exhausted traveler.
(4) I’d like to thank Mother Nature for knocking electricity out at my house with a massive thunderstorm yesterday. The power company seems to be applying the BP theory of disaster management and nothing has gotten done to fix the problem. No worries though, it’s not like I need to use any electronic devices anyhow, right?
-It’s amazing how a simple problem (oil coming out of a pipe) can become such a big crisis under extreme circumstances (oil rushing out 5 miles under water).
-The bad news is that spill now covers nearly 12,000 square miles. The good news is that the Earth has, if memory serves, nearly 200,000,000 square miles on its surface.
-The Daily Show captured the situation pretty well by saying that instead of picking the oil out of the water and wildlife, we’re now picking the wildlife and water out of the oil.
-CNN is brilliant for putting up that counter of the gallons spilled. People will watch scrolling counters for hours on end, especially if the counter is counting something bad.
-How the heck are we are supposed to litigate and prosecute a significant portion of our country being destroyed?
(6) In a tragic story, a 10 year old girl from Tennesee died in a riding accident on Thursday. The story of how the girl fell is unclear. For all the fun we get from riding, situations like this remind us that every single moment on a horse contains an element of danger. Let’s take this chance to remember all the riders who have lost their lives doing what they love.
