Who says the NYTimes is total crap? ::grins at Davner::

The best description of carbonoffsetting by the rich, ever: "Carbon-offsetting, the newly fashionable practice of compensating for one’s own carbon emissions by paying into a fund to reduce them elsewhere, may be better than nothing, but to some it sounds too much like rich men paying others to take their place in the draft during the Civil War. "

From today's online issue, in an article on Live Earth.

Mark stood up on his own today!

Squee!










He started out by pulling himself into a kneeling position using his busybox, then with much grunting and whining, and a lot of repeated singing from the busybox when he leant against it too hard, he hoisted himself up the rest of the way. We're so proud. :D

He couldn't figure out how to get back down again... ^_^;; So mommy had to pick him up; he was very ungrateful. But we can work on that another day.