Best Phrase of the Day

"Carbon-cloud cuckoo land" gets my pick as the best phrase of the day. It is the phrase I just read today in one journalist's opinion of the latest G8 summit commitment to cut carbon-emissions 50% by 2050. (You can read the story here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/07/10/do1004.xml)
Every politician from both parties in city government to our country's top leadership (and those running for it) are affirming the man-made global warming threat. Just as they jump on the band-wagon of global warming the scientific dissent is beginning to take hold.
(http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37&Itemid=1)

Finally, Spring!

Saturday dawned with the first, real, significant spring weather. It was bright and sunny with a predicted high in the mid-60's. I've been no-so-patiently waiting for spring to arrive so I could plant the peach trees and blue-berry bushes I bought weeks ago. The weird part of the day was clearing an area out of the snow to plant the trees. By mid-afternoon the day had warmed up and so had my neck and top of the head. The equation ss + rsp - fhh = sb accurately captures the experience, Sun Shine + Reflected Snow Properties - Full Head of Hair = Sunburn.
The kids enjoyed the day as well. They took large sticks to attack the various piles of snow about the yard calling themselves "The army of spring." Their plan seems to be working as the scattered piles were the first to disappear this weekend. The last little joy of spring was driving by the ice-free little lake near our house. Its finally time to buy my fishing license.