Ecological niches

Bunch of maybe-news about the maybe-death of Abu Musab al Asshole this morning. People jumping up and down and cheering.

Well, if true, the world will have been relieved of one plague microbe. Problem is, there's a plenitude where that one came from. The purported leaders of these purported organizations are _not_ indispensable. They are more like interchangeable parts. Kill off one Osama and another will come out of the hills.

Pretty much like woodchucks. If I trap one woodchuck, pretty soon there'll be another brazen beast grazing on the greenery. It's an ecological necessity. Provide a source of food and _something_ will show up to eat it.

Still raining. Maybe that's the source of my gloomy analysis.

Next stage

Finished the first round of revisions to SIGNATURES this afternoon and passed the stack of paper on to Wife. Who responded, "Of course. It's Thursday." Because she works Friday-Sunday, and therefore faces a schedule bind....

Not that I expect her to drop everything and read, mind you.

Maybe I'll do some architecture tomorrow. That pays.