Day: December 20, 2006

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Who dat?

Amy & I are heading to Louisiana tomorrow for the holidays. Even though I’m a “New York” Giants fan, and they need a win to keep their playoff hopes alive, I’m going to be cheering for the Saints on Sunday. I’m hooked on America’s Team (well, that’s what they were last year when they had “home” games in three states).

Chris Rose chronicles another recent convert to the black-and-gold. Amy warns me that I’m setting myself up for disappointment, but she’s willing to play along with the notion that the Saints have turned the corner. Till Carney honks a big field goal.

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Look, kids! Malthusian idiocy!

From some idiot in the Washington Post:

Large populations living in megacities consume massive amounts of the Earth’s energy to maintain their infrastructures and daily flow of human activity. The Sears Tower in Chicago alone uses more electricity in a single day than the city of Rockford, Ill., with 152,000 people. Even more amazing, our species now consumes nearly 40 percent of the net primary production on Earth — the amount of solar energy converted to plant organic matter through photosynthesis — even though we make up only one-half of 1 percent of the animal biomass of the planet. This means less for other species to use.