Well, I'm done with that game forever. After a short and rather easy tangle with the evil and quite fictional Timemaster, I went to the library to get some reserve materials that turned out to be equally ficitonal, as far as the students at the library help desk know. So that was slightly frustrating, especially when I have to listen to Earth Day festivities.

I'll try to be as logical as I can be in the scant time I have before dinner.

My simple assertion: Earth Day is a foolish holiday, because it's really just a celebration of trees and lakes and ducks and lemurs. The earth spent far more time, by my reckoning, as a ball of molten rock, and to celebrate growths on it's surface is akin to celebrating cheese by preserving mold. As far as the earth is concerned, humans, toxic waste, trees and guano all have an equal right to be here.

I'm all for preservation, but don't act like the earth has anything to do with it. I mean, even calling it Earth day implies the presence, for good or ill, of humans. We named this orb, after all; pretending that 'Earth' existed before us is like calling pre-vespuccian members of this country "Early Americans", when 'America' didn't exist until we named it as such. A pox on poorly named, yet well-intentioned, holidays!

Well, that's not perfectly logical, but it'll have to do.