Not that people didn’t go – loads showed up in Huston – it’s that the show comes crashing down because the follow-ons are afraid to lose money instead of analyzing what’s wrong and fixing it to make a profit AND educate people.

Here’s an apropos quote from my friend Jack King in England, he’s an ex-POW (Japanese concentration camp WWII) and 85 years old I think, very wise (he plays, composes, dances, writes poetry, has written two novels, and cares for his wife who has Alzheimers): “Remember that all the empires of history have succumbed to a surfeit of soft living and how some virile and less well off nation has finally arrived at the gates to take over, and in the fullness of time have themselves suffered the same fate. The more things alter the more they remain the same!”

Cool guy. Your article made me think of his e-mail.

First, ‘bad winter weather’ is an understatement. The city was shut down for days, most PSC employees couldn’t get to work, and the roads were a disaster.

Which would not have been so bad, but the winter weather was during the time that many people (myself included) were planning on viewing Lucy – during the holiday break. I had two ‘dates’ to see the exhibit, but the PSC was closed during my vacation time.

Thirdly, the exhibit is prohibitively expensive. $20 per adult, $15 per child? In the midst of an economic recession? Families will have a hard time swallowing that – $70+. Seattle has a whole host of wonderful, much less expensive, activities for families to participate in.

And, did I mention that Seattle is home to the Discovery Institute, the funding source behind much of the intelligent design debate in this country?