Chrysler shutting down all plants for a month

How nationalistic of you!

I would have thought “species” would have been closer than “country”.

@batmando–elevation, about 1,000-1,800 feet (depending on whether you’re in the valley or on Lookout or Sand “Mountain”. I’m at about 1,700–pretty close to the top of Lookout Mountain. The average highs in the winter are mid-50′s, but vary tremendously. It can be cold (low twenties and windy, like a couple of weeks ago), to balmy warm, like now (70′s today). Summer is pretty much predictably hot. Avg high in July is upper 80′s, but can get lots hotter, and never much cooler.

“So the Proverb is meant to be a positive blessing …”

Well, maybe not.

From Wikipedia:

“Some years ago, in 1936, I had to write to a very dear and honored friend of mine, who has since died, Sir Austen Chamberlain, brother of the present Prime Minister, and I concluded my letter with a rather banal remark, “that we were living in an interesting age.” Evidently he read the whole letter, because by return mail he wrote to me and concluded as follows: “Many years ago, I learned from one of our diplomats in China that one of the principal Chinese curses heaped upon an enemy is, ‘May you live in an interesting age.’” “Surely”, he said, “no age has been more fraught with insecurity than our own present time.” That was three years ago.

— Frederic R. Coudert, Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, 1939″

I’ve been making money this past year, so I can feel somewhat secure and do find it interesting.

But I don’t have children, and I take it you don’t either. If I did, I’d be feeling a great deal of anxiety, and would think seriously about moving somewhere where people aren’t quite as centered on their current need and wants.