Brown Motion

For all the pontificators on the subject of warming trends et al and how we as a species are causing irreparable damage to the flora, fauna and fundas..it is quite humiliating when the planet lets out a serious belch. It happened not far from our home in the Silicon Valley of CA.  What is known as the wine regions of northern California shook with a burp of 6.0 as measured by Richter scale.  That it did not cause serious human loss of life was partly a function of when it happened - when most of the public near the epicenter (even those that stayed up late to imbibe the local beverages - think Napa Wines) were asleep. It shook our bed many miles away too around 3.15 AM local time and lasted a good 15 seconds.  What I find amusing is that the news hawks decide to make a field day because the people had already tuned them out after the stale story about the demise of one of my beloved comics (Robin Williams - who passed - onto another realm not passed by Napa - abo...