Breakfast: Another rut … whole-wheat toast with jam and a sliced apple.

Lunch: Skipped!

Dinner: I plead the fifth. I didn’t cheat. I just didn’t eat very well and I’m ashamed.

Cravings: More Skittles.

Mood: Angry!

I was going to write about sustainable food practices today. You know--healthy, good tasting food (meat and veggies both) that isn’t bad for the environment or cruel to the animals and pays fair wages. And I will, on Monday, but I just want to get something off my chest first. Check out this story in the New York Times:

“The group whose $10 million prize spurred privately financed rocketeers to send a small piloted craft to the cusp of space in 2004 has issued a new challenge: an unmanned moon shot. With the audacious new contest comes a much bigger prize: up to $25 million, paid for by Google, the ubiquitous Internet company. The “Google Lunar X Prize” was announced yesterday in Los Angeles at the Wired magazine’s NextFest. The contest calls for entrants to land a rover on the moon that will be able to travel at least 550 yards and send high-resolution video, still images and other data back home.”

Are you kidding me--twenty-five million dollars for a moon car? I’m sorry; do we live on the moon? Does anything live on the moon? Let me tell what how I read this--global warming will soon render the planet inhospitable for polar bears, penguins, frog and thousands of other species, including quite possibly our own, so let’s tie up the biggest and brightest minds in America and figure out how to get a remote control camera to the moon. I’m sorry to drop my fair and balanced act but that is the STUPIDEST THING I HAVE EVER HEARD. And I’m going to go one step further and say this is the reason people hate scientists and other assorted intelligentsia. First you tell us that Earth is going to hell in a hand basket; but instead of dedicating your efforts to fixing the problem, you cut and run … to the Moon.