Silly Season?

I started the morning rounds of reading the Drudge report and was struck by a couple of the Environmental links. The first is a Daily Mail piece on an "eco warrior" who spent years trying to get sterilized so she couldn't have children and, thereby, "ruin the planet". Quite a puff-piece from the Mail going into "pressure" to have children from parents and in-laws, a bit of how man is destroying the planet. You just have to wonder if these people think that man is not a natural part of the earth's environment. Silly, but you can make reproductive choices for any number of reasons. Celebration of an 8-year search for sterilization as an environmental cause is just downright silly. Nice to see that this bit of lunacy has been removed from the gene pool.

The other article, again from Drudge is how man is shortening the life the universe. Seems that by measuring light from supernovae we can increase the rate that dark energy destroys all matter. This is by two supposedly reputable scientists and was not published on April 1. I'm not sure how the non-destructive measurement of something will result in increased destruction rate of matter hundreds of light-years away. But then I took only one course in quantum mechanics and that course didn't cover cosmology. Again, man, not satisfied with a single planet, has now set his sights on the universe.

Getting sillier and sillier.

Pain at the Pump

Taking a trip from Virginia to Michigan the week before Memorial Day is guaranteed to end up with expensive gas prices. Prices along the way on Sunday, 5/20 were $3 in Richmond, $3 on the PA Turnpike, $3.29 to $3.49 in Ohio and Michigan. Prices in Lansing jumped $.20 to $.30 overnight on Monday. I'm not much of a conspiracy believer, but the Standard Michigan $0.30 price jumps really make one wonder. This has been going on since before I moved in 2001. I've never really understood how this works here.