It snowed a lot this weekend. The suckage of that was so bad I even cleared a space in my garage for, yep, my car. I was tired of having to scrape the friggin windshield.

Started reading (well, re-reading) Aldous Huxley's Brave New World today. It was that wacky social engineering idea I recently read that got me to dig out the classic paperback. It's only in the first chapters where they review the procedures at the Hatchery -- breeding and conditioning each successive generation of Julias. Those reactionary authors of the1930s... so prescient!

Eh, I suppose every generation longs for an authoritarian "cure" for the human condition. And as much as the science crowd likes to mock the religion crowd, totalitarian these days always seems to cloak itself in theories -- economics, sociology, psychology. And the more they generate new laws and cultural norms, the worse the problems get, the more the discontented demand an authoritarian cure.

So let's send everyone to the same government schools -- that'll cure it!

Cookie and Mojo are doing pretty well in the Catholic school here. I like to think the education they get is worth the money we spend. Maybe it's an added bonus that it also makes us subversive. Nice. Keep your soma, I'm drinking Pigfandel tonight.