I had a funny nightmare on Monday morning, and I haven't had a chance to write about it yet. I had forgotten to do the oral exam to complete my undergrad, so I had to go back there -- only the campus was a weird mix of Mudd and Berkeley. The orals were heinous, as they always are in this sort of dream. The only question I remember was "Draw the NMR spectrum of this compound."
The next night I had a dream where I was discussing economics with the clerk in an airport concession stand. I explained, "When you buy a bag of chips today for the same price as you did yesterday, but today it creates a penny more of capital, that's growth!" He ran around whooping like a maniac, and started explaining some complicated scenario using Boris and Natasha and other Jay Ward characters, but I couldn't follow it.
We've stepped back a bit from childcare, which is a relief for us. We've spent the extra time reading fantasy novels, going to movies, shopping for new office furniture -- in short, anything other than working. And virtually no running -- once this week so far.
I've also been reading a lot of blogs, but not doing any posting. I think the answer to that is to post first and read later.
I'm glad to see that Colby, too, is making up bizarre conspiracy theories about media behavior. Unfortunately, more and more of the behavior of Al Gore, the liberal media (perhaps even liberals in general?) can only explained by bizarre conspiracy theories.
If you divide the population by two distinctions -- those who believe that people are mostly smart vs. mostly stupid, and those with a postive outlook vs. a negative outlook, you find:
Those who have a positive outlook and believe that people are mostly smart. Libertarians, in a word.
Those who have a positive outlook and believe that people are mostly stupid. Welfare-state democrats.
Those who have a negative outlook and believe that people are mostly stupid. Angry and insecure people who believe that their rightful place is to be the benevolent dictator of the world. Usually they vote with the welfare-state democrats
Those who have a negative outlook and believe that people are mostly smart. Conspiracy theorists.