I’m celebrating a birthday with a rather high number this weekend, and sometimes, between the achy back and failing eyesight, I’m not too upset with the progression of time. Today for example.  Tree hugging four- time Proglibocrat Oregon governor John Kitzhaber will be stepping down soon over some monetary conflicts of interest involving his girlfriend, Cylvia Hayes.  According to the New York Times, the two got together several years ago over “a shared passion for a low carbon energy future.”   Dreamy, huh ?    If indeed I am so out of the love loop that such things are really occurring today between members of the opposite sex,  then I am so thankful that I was born in the 1950’s and came together with the fairer sex for an assortment of way-more-fun reasons.   WHAT THE HECK !     I’ll throw out a wild guess that, at least from Governor Kitzhaber’s perspective, his motives had more to do with a 20 year gap in age than with his desire to save the planet !