QUOTE OF THE DAY. I'll give the honors to editorial writers at the Chicago Tribune. For a long time, I have touted the exercise value of the open-reel lawnmower, and the current tools will be up to the job at the new quarters. Here's the insight from the Tribune.

Some die-hards suggest there's a stigma attached to the reel mower, a "wimp factor." But who is wimpier, the guy who buys the megabucks power riding mower with the cup holders and the tilt steering wheel (no DVD player yet!) and then roars around his lawn like an Abrams tank commander, his flabby midsection ajiggle, or the weekend warrior working up an honest sweat behind the push mower?

Any dinghy sailor will tell you that gasoline is neither a nutritional nor an intellectual supplement. Horsepower alone does not turn a landlubber into a seaman, not that the stink-boaters don't continue to delude themselves it does!