Someone Needs a Mommy

When you were a kid, did you get out of doing things because someone else of your acquaintance didn't have to do it? Around here the response to a comment like "Kathleen doesn't have to make her bed!" would be "This isn't Kathleen's house, and that isn't a reason not to make your bed."

Some of the justices on the Supreme Court don't seem to get this principle (in much the same way that Our President doesn't seem to get it). "Chief Justice John Roberts "echoing the Bush administration's view, wondered why the United States should reduce its greenhouse gas emissions if China's output of gases will rise sharply in coming years."

When I'm China's mother, they'll reduce their greenhouse gases. In the meantime I expect my government not only to keep its room clean, but to set a good example for the other kids on the planet.