I liked the movie with Yul Brenner. Was it based on the book? Never read it. Read 'Dead Souls'. In eighth grade. Probably should read it again. Yup. Carbon trading is pretty hokey, but if you can play Old Maid, you can figure out how it works. We hit a peak in coal and oil somewhere in the spring of 2008. We will likely never burn more than that. It's the rate of decline we're interested in. Probably won't be fast enough. Won't hurt to try anyway. Cutting oil will be easy. Coal, not so easy. Agree mostly about sports except for two things. Beer. That's one. The second exception is womens' tennis. You got to listen to it with your eyes closed. Sounds just like lesbians having sex with a toilet plunger. Bayonets were pretty useless in the Civil war. When did they stop putting them on the end of rifles, I forgot.