Day 44 - cold! (February 13)

Activity: day 20 of snowboarding. The highlight of the day was definitely the bike to Castlerock - it got us warmed up and then we had an amazing run down Castlerock itself. So much perfectly spaced powder! It was cold, though. My facemask actually froze to my face in the space of just a single run. 

Photo: some talented and cold souls were carving ice statues at the base of the resort. Amazing work!

Thought for the day: We are so easily influenced by media. I was speaking to some very thoughtful conservatives yesterday and one of them said that everything is going into the toilet. But is it really? We can't look at numbers like the US national debt without understanding the context of how it compares to other countries and in the context of current interest rates. The absolute number doesn't mean anything without context. Just one example... 

And if people really want a smaller government, then less military expenditures - we spend as more than the next 25 countries combined - would make the government smaller. But it eliminating or severely cutting back on our largest social program would also send the economy into a tailspin. No easy solutions exist but it isn't as bad or as bad in the way people think it is, either.