Just found a report of a speech given by the US Ag Secretary yesterday talking about the spread of African stem rust - a dwarf wheat disease - in the developing world.  This at a time when the US wheat stocks are at a 60 year low, the global stocks at a 30 year low.  Throughly depressing.

Excuse me while I go to bed and pull the covers over my head.  ;-)

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre