Well, it's Thursday, and, characteristically, I'm very tired. I have much to write about my class today, but not this evening . . .

Instead I'll offer some thoughts that have been rattling around for a while . . . just little nothings, but I keep meaning to post them here.

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I figured out what would be wrong with living in Arizona, alas. It's true that the weather would be nice and pleasant in the winter . . . but it would also get dark really early. So during the times of year when the days would be nice and long, it would also be unbearably hot. Doesn't seem like the optimal climate at all when I look at it that way . . . (I've been thinking about this lately because it has been unseasonably warm here.)

Well, I did have another thought, but I forgot what it was . . .

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Oh: My favorite bumper sticker to date: A picture of Bush, with the International Not! Symbol over his face, and the words, "Let's not elect him in 2004, either." Jeffrey says he saw one that said "Re-defeat Bush," which is almost as good.

Disturbing Bush-Cheney billboards on the way home from Lansing: One that simply says, "Boots or flip-flops?" and another that says, "Remember: It's your money." Both of them make me want to scream. Tonight Jeff and I decided that since most of life is so complicated (health care choices, retirement investment choices, car choices, heck - orange juice choices, even!), people want their politics simple. Gaaah.

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I've decided not to believe in global warming, and I'm much happier for it. Emil saw this show on PBS a while back, and they talked about a theory that dinosaurs became extinct in about twenty years, because there was a cataclysmic climate shift in that time. For some reason, I found this enormously cheering. Maybe we don't really have a clue what's going on with the planet; our records only go back a very short while and everything else is, in the last analysis, speculation. I have always been a fan of preserving the natural world; my feelings on that point don't change if I eschew global warming. I don't think we should trot along as we have been for a lot of reasons, not just because the earth is heating up. And it's somehow comforting not to have to hate everyone out there in SUVs . . . I feel a great burden lifted.

Oh, well.

More tomorrow, when I'm cheerfuller.