16 May 2010

Thursday I went to a speech by Greg Bell. He started by discussing how Charles Lindbergh was an isolationist and how many of the founder fathers had slaves. His point was that even our heroes and great leaders made bad decisions. I suppose that is true but we cannot use that as an excuse to make bad decisions of our own or to compromise our principles for our personal benefit.

This week we also became subject to 338 new laws. Society must have been a shambles before all those new laws were put into place to restore order. Unfortunately an effective legislature is defined as somebody who proposes many bills and has a high pass percentage. I think we would all be better off if an effective legislature was somebody who defended the constitution and protected the rights of the citizens from a tyrannical government.

I couldn’t arrange to meet anybody on Saturday and couldn’t understand why until Suzanne and I went to the nursery to buy plants. I think the whole town was buying vegetable and other plants. If all those plants grow we will be awash in produce in the fall. We should be able to get pollution credits for all the carbon dioxide that will be consumed by all those plants. I am definitely going to have to exhale more.