Man I love Mark Steyn.
(talking about low birthrates) "...Much of a society's self-image assumes a certain amount of youthful energy: Hollywood movies are full of young people. Sports teams are full of young people. Google gets invented by young people. If you have, as Spain's heading towards, an inverted family tree of four grandparents with one grandchild, you're not exactly going to be on the cutting edge of the zeitgeist."

A hearty intellectual smackdown, courtesy of Dr. Patrick Moore, one of the co-founders of Greenpeace.

...to the first person to correctly identify the author of this quote. (without looking it up, naturally.)

True, it is a fixed idea with the French that the Rhine is their property, but to this arrogant demand the only reply worthy of the German nation is Arndt's: "Give back Alsace and Lorraine". For I am of the opinion, perhaps in contrast to many whose standpoint I share in other respects, that the reconquest of the German-speaking left bank of the Rhine is a matter of national honour, and that the Germanisation of a disloyal Holland and of Belgium is a political necessity for us. Shall we let the German nationality be completely suppressed in these countries, while the Slavs are rising ever more powerfully in the East?

Edit: It was Friedrich Engles, Karl Marx's good buddy & Co-author.  Sounds a lot like Hitler, doesn't it.?

You can all resume your normal lives now.

I went to Iowa to visit Mahoney for a weekend with Binner, and had a fabulous time.  We even watched a cheesy 80's movie. 
Then, as soon as I got back from Iowa, I went to Colorado for a week to visit the fam.  It was fun.

New Brighton had a parade today.  They went right past Fountain (where I relocated to on Sunday).