Drunken Pumpkin

Have a nice day—Unless you have other plans

Just having a look at the news and I spotted an article about the EU appointing a single Foreign Chief. I wonder how far out we are from the EU completely functioning like a single country and telling the U.S. to piss off or grow up. If they keep listening to some of the zany stuff coming out of Poland that might just take a bit.

Okay, the Polish are a little cranky with the Germans for that whole invasion and slaughter thing from the middle of last century, but I think it might be time to move past that. The French have calmed down about the Germans, and just look at how often the Germans stomped them into the ground. And it gets worse when look at the real world instead of just soccer. Seriously.

But my favorite part of the article was the discussion about changes in voting procedures. I really love the Polish take on things:

Poland has proposed an alternative under which voting power would be based on the square root of each country’s population.

I don’t know how that effects anything, as the sqare root of a large number is still bigger than the square root of a small number. I just love the fact that they want to use square roots to decide on voting power. I think the next proposal really should include a reference to pi. Maybe the square root of the number of people per square mile multiplied by available acreage times pi. I think that would give a fair amount of power to those involved in deciding policy.

Maybe it’s just me, but when you have to break out the scientific calculator to sort out how many votes your nation has, things have become a little silly. Maybe the bicameral system really is the way to go. Or maybe that’s just the American in me talking.

Enough with the politics. Go square your population and increase your power. Come back tomorrow for a little chat about ethanol.