6-6-6

I'm making a point of writing the date that way today - often followed by "MWA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!" I'm sure that will lead to a position of greater responsibility.

I'd say it's vastly more important to celebrate the 62nd anniversary of D-Day than to worry about what The Anti-Christ is doing today, whether he's being born or initiating The Tribulation or whatever. Think of it this way: if the prophecy is true, there ain't a damn thing you can do about it anyway.

I'm much more disturbed by this portrait of German children:

In Germany, however, Lego's strategy worked exactly as intended. German children opened a box of Legos, sought out the instructions, read them carefully, and then sorted the pieces by color. They set to building, comparing their assembly progress to the crisp, helpful illustrations in the instruction booklet. When they were finished, they had an exact duplicate of the product shown on the cover of the box. They showed it to Mother who clapped approvingly and put the model on a shelf. Now the children needed another box.

Without even knowing it, Lego had tapped into the Culture Code for Germany itself: ORDER. Over many generations, Germans perfected bureaucracy in an effort to stave off the chaos that came to them in wave after wave, and Germans are imprinted early on with this most powerful of codes. It is that imprint which makes children reach dutifully for the instructions, and it is that code which prevents them from immediately destroying their neat construction in order to build it anew. Lego's elegant, full-color instructions had tapped into the German code in a way that assured repeat sales.

ORDNUNG!!

Oy, veh!