Quote Of The Week

Celebrating Earth Day / Arbor Day / Lenins Birthday or whatever, this from Mark Steyn:

My township in New Hampshire is 90 per cent forested, but you can never have too many trees, so on Earth Day I always like to plant a couple more, get the tree cover in my town up to 97, 98 per cent, whatever it takes to send climate change into reverse. Of course, it's always a big pain in the neck the morning after Earth Day, when the holiday’s over, and it’s time to take down the trees. So these days I generally just plant artificial trees with the nice silvery tinselly branches, and then you can just take them down and put 'em in the attic till next year's Earth Day.

I love the way he manifests as both reverential and practical at once. Of course there's nothing wrong with turning the lights off for an hour either as long as you've got someone to hand to share the moment with. And maybe some of that Viagra beer, too.