A Dialogue on Evolution, Plumbing, and Other Subjects.

The Thirteen-Year-Old: I'm depressed...

Me: Why?...

The Thirteen-Year-Old: I'm a teenager. It's expected of me. Besides, our president is a real idiot. Iraq's weapons of mass destruction are now in the hands of real terrorists. And the world is full of poverty and hunger and war and terror...[much more material]

[Semi-Daily Journal]

An very nice dialog revealing that no matter what the intellectual stature of any of our leaders, we and the world are much, much better off today than at any other time in history. An nice perspective revealing that in the main our differences are much smaller and potentially more easily solved than at most other times.   1:49:41 PM