Wednesday February 19, 2014  Met Nate Bucklin for conversation at the Dunn Brothers coffee house in the Minneapolis Central Library building.

The Friends bookstore was having a 25-cent sale.  I bought two name books.

***From politicalwire.com:

 Missouri House Appropriations committee chairman Mike Lair (R) appropriated $8 "for two rolls of high density aluminum to create headgear designed to deflect drone and/or black helicopter mind reading and control technology," according to the Columbia Daily Tribune.

The money was tied to an amendment removing language barring the state from accepting federal grants to implement Common Core standards for public schools which some conservatives believe is President Obama's attempt to indoctrinate children.

Explained Lair: "Basically, when you deal with conspiracy theorists, you do logic first... If you can't deal with folks with logic, you use humor. This is to stop all the problems from the black helicopters and drones. This is high density foil."

***"Arguing that we need more carbon dioxide, not less, in the atmosphere," Utah state Rep. Jerry Anderson (R) "has proposed legislation that would limit the state's ability to regulate emissions of the greenhouse gas," the Salt Lake Tribune reports.

Said Anderson: "We are short of carbon dioxide for the needs of the plants. Concentrations reached 600 parts per million at the time of the dinosaurs and they did quite well. I think we could double the carbon dioxide and not have any adverse effects."