I did watch the wedding on the E! Channel. From what was shown, it loekod like Kris was the more down to earth Midwest guy who had hoped Kim would change, settle down, have a family. He didn't drink the Kardashian kool-aid and her family didn't like him. She listens to her family, and she says she wants her own family but obviously only with someone who is willing to live a reality TV life. He should have known better, but love is blind, right? For her, her career came first. She's married to fame and money. I can't respect her at all.

This is the real problem when environmentalists discuss “begin with behavior.” It’s really hard to do this well without sounding like the church lady. The left is as fond as the right of making up new sins. Don’t drive your car, don’t eat beef, don’t eat tuna, don’t eat meat, have a small house, turn your thermostat down, drink bottled water, don’t drink bottled water, use a low flow toilet, use a push mower, boycott shell, coke and all other companies on the list. Appeals to conservation and efficiency can easily be perceived this way.When I hear these messages, I hear that I’m going to have to sacrifice. If I do this to save the world and no one else does, I loose. I ride my bike down the street and get run off the road by my neighbor in the Hummer. We share the fate of the planet. I’m the one in the weeds. He’s driving past saying “thanks for doing your part, chump” You have to be pretty committed to put up with that deal. Those who are committed feel embittered. Those who are not committed won’t do it, even if they are inclined to. This is what Dick Cheny was alluding to. Not enough people are going to take conservation seriously on those terms. Industry groups favor of voluntary programs to manage public costs, but when you consider the behavior of competitive firms in a market economy, the prognosis is even worse. Those that incur additional costs or forego revenue for the sake of the public interest are at a competitive disadvantage to those who continue to cost shift through pollution. The market considers this inefficient behavior and those firms will eventually be driven out of business. Even companies who want to do the right thing are punished by the market for doing so. Now consumers can vote with their dollars for the good guys, but that green seal is just one of many factors consumers balance when they make a choice. That mechanism requires consumers to collect and synthesize more information and weigh another dimension of value when they make choices. This of course assumes that actually have a real choice in the first place. These factors will all interfere with the ability of consumers to send market signals that are meaningful. It is not realistic to expect consumers to enforce environmental standards.We are all in this together and this means we have to act like it. So how do you change behavior without putting on the jack boots and becoming the carbon police? What we make easy and what we make hard define the default settings of American lifestyles. Rather than requiring individuals to make sacrifices, make the right choices the ones that are most convenient. We can make small and subtle changes in how we design streets, how buildings are oriented relative to their parking spaces, where the stairs and elevators are in a building. Changes like these influence but to not regulate behavior. If you want to drive or use the elevator, this is still a free choice. You just need to make doing the right thing a little easier and the wrong thing a little harder.Here is where I think there is some room for us an the libertarians to find some agreement. Certain individuals can still make that choice, but subtle changes will affect the relative probability and this will add up to a measurable change in the aggregate. The sum total of all the choices individuals make can change, even if you do not force a different choice. When we talk about driving less, biking more, using less water, using less energy and all those good things, the environment is not affected in any measurable amount by the behavior of any one individual. It is only the behavior of people in the aggregate that matters.For businesses, changes in what we require will help the market send the right pricing signals and will affect the relative competitiveness of businesses that engage in public behavior. If all businesses have to operate in the same way, the market does not punish the good actors and the playing field is level. Efficiency reflects real efficiency and not cost-shifting. Consumers are relieved of the burden of having to make tradeoffs across a public interest dimension and can instead focus on those attributes that mean the most to them. Both of these will require public policy changes. That is what “we’re all in this together” means.

Thank goodness for change and deep introspection…… Time management is a definite issue for most of us, but see, you and I have one distinct advantage, Oh, look something shiny… the innate abilty to multitask, so we may find it possible to wait in gas lines and watch yoga videos on the portable DVD player in our vehicle (even though I know you do not have a DVD player in your car) you could always use your cool tablet pc for that, while blogging!Anyways, totally random, not the least on point, and as you can probably guess, a feable attempt at procrastination!

I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you don’t have a malevolent intent here, though the tone of your post makes me think otherwise. Not all of the tips I wrote will apply to everyone, but many of them DO WORK if you actually try them. Did you try any of them or are you making assumptions? I’ve spent years in a high stress corporate environment, and if they work for me, I’m sure they’ll work for others. As for your comments, of course I approved it. I have them moderated and they get screened a few times a week. Once you’ve been approved once, it’ll be instant the next.

words (to the effect) "no videos, please, we're very careful about what he kids watch. Oh, and no toy guns, please."Several mothers instantly agreed that toy guns were bad, bad, violent toys, and complimented me on keeping them from my kids.I told them they'd misunderstood, and called over my son. I asked him to tell the other moms what we'd done last weekend after he and his brother cleaned up their rooms.He thought a moment, brightened, and said "Oh, we went SHOOTING! And this time I got all my shots in the target!"To the (now-horrified) other parents, I explained that I was a competition shooter in a previous life, my wife have both been at different times firearms instructors, the whole family loves shooting, and that the only reason I preferred the boys not get toy guns was because (I believe) it encourages casual and possibly unsafe handling of fireams. I told them I saw nothing wrong with toy guns per se, but that since my boys shoot regularly, I simply didn't want them to pick up any bad habits. I wonder it it has had anything to do with my not being invited to many other parents' parties :)

Two reasons kids, and people in general, are overweight...1) Ridiculous overabundance of food. People eat lunch the way people in the 1940's ate Thanksgiving. Food is rich, plentiful, and inexpensive.2) The multiplicity of services pouring out of the idiot box. What's on the idiot box today? 24-hour cartoons, kids programming, X-Box and Playstation, legions of kid movies, the Disney collection on DVD, computer games... for crying out loud, there are video screens in SUV's now because Mommy can't be troubled to handle little Johnny in the back seat - she might as well buy him a lithium drip. The idiot box is now America's Babysitter, what you turn on when you don't want to have to interface with the child. Kids are conditioned to be drawn to the idiot box like moths to a flame.When I was a kid, I rode by bike in the desert, built forts from dumped material, hunted ants to make ant farms, caught lizards, played football in the street...Kids today play football...Madden 2006... why go outside when you can VIRTUALLY go outside?Couple this with parental fear of child predation, and I'm afraid that no, Johnny can't come out and play...Heck, this was good enough to blog, I shoulda just done that...

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