Opinions? Shrug.

I just watched a movie with Kevin Costner where the election of the next US president came down to just his vote, and he didn't really give a flying hoot. Both politicians changed their entire platform trying to impress this nonchalant man who had a handful of half-formed, ill-expressed, non-sound-bite-friendly opinions if he had them at all.

Here are some things I either don't care about one way or the other, or can easily see both sides:

1. Public displays of the Ten Thingies. I can't bring myself to call them commandments, at least not all of them. Maybe 6 or 7 are commandments. If my daughter's school wants to put up a sign that says, "Let's not kill each other, let's not steal each other's stuff, let's not be all jealous of each other, and let's not tattle tale," that'd be ok with me. They can leave the God stuff off though.

2. Who wins at the next big sports event. Meh.

3. Population growth. We are natural organisms who live here. We didn't ask to be born, but we're generally glad we were. Life's been going on here for a very long time; we aren't so powerful that we're going to kill the world. The worst we could do is cause a massive extinction, but life has hit the reset button here before. I'm anthropocentric enough to not want people to starve and suffer, and I think helpful innovations are amazing and fabulous. Life is a wild ride, and the idea that NYC may well be ocean floor before I die is pretty interesting. I don't know how it's going to go, but I don't count myself worrying about it so much as plain wondering.

4. Whether Pluto is a planet or not. It is what it is. A rose is a blah blah blah.

5. Genetically Modified Organisms. I heard a guy on the bus a few weeks ago characterize people who make GMOs as munny-grubbing azzholes. I took it personally. They may not be going about it in a way that is satisfactory to all, but people who make GMOs are trying to feed people. They're trying to help, in their way. But I don't think of myself as an advocate for GMOs. There may be gene products we can't anticipate, that we dont' want to eat. Things that wouldn't be helpful in the wild. I think they need more testing.