There has been a lag in my posting, I confess. It is not from a lack of something to say; it is from a lack of energy to say it. We’ll see if I can climb out of this malaise. In the meantime, this: James Fallows, a well respected journalist, was commenting about Al Gore using the old frog in the kettle metaphor for doing nothing. While some might debate how accurate Gore is on global warming, he says we are all dead wrong on amphibian warming:
Summary of the undisputed science on this point: If you throw a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will either die or else be so badly hurt it will wish that it were dead. If you put it in a pot of tepid water and turn on the heat, the frog will climb out — if it can — as soon as it gets uncomfortably warm.
Well, there goes an otherwise perfectly good cliche. Is it still true that pots and kettles are black?