Puddle Jumping in DC

If wind were an awkward guy from Germany.

“I think I was always misunderstood. People didn’t seem to like me.”  This entertaining and timely commercial was nominated for a D&AD award in creative communications. via Thingamababy, thanks.

Sense and Economics

"A large, and growing, chunk of our collective resources is already allocated to the military on the basis of passionate claims about moral imperitives. Those who care about civilian objectives have to answer in kind, not imagine that they can win the debate with careful spreadsheets and subtle tradeoffs alone."

- Frank Ackerman & Lisa Heinzerling, Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing

Today was a day of mixed messages

On my way into the metro, a nice lady from Our Place, a local social work agency, gave me a little baggie with a heart shaped lollipop, some condoms, and educational material about sexually transmitted diseases and other health issues.

An economist on NPR this morning was discussing his research that determined that a marriage is equal to, on average, $100,000 worth of happiness per year.

On my way out of the metro, I was confronted with a wall of billboards from the Marriage Works people who promote that same message but want to deny that happiness to the 600,000 or so committed gay and lesbian couples in the U.S.