I personally don't consume much oil, except a little bit of the olive variety. In fact I believe it is indeed healthy to minimize the use of oil and other unsaturated fat in our lives. So I whole-heartedly throw my weight behind Brad's motion, at the same time urge a similiar campaign against gasoline, which, I have to say after much experiments in various cousine styles, is neither healthy nor tasty.

Actually, maybe the ancient Greek guys' war-like tendencies were more due to lack of sex rather than a surfeit of it.

An random but interesting tidbit of history I learned today. It seems the Romans and the Chinese did manage to contact each other brieftly. On 166 AD, envoys from Emperor Marcus Aurelius (the one in Gladiator) reached Han Dynasty China and established a embassy there. But the contact was brief because the Persians tried hard to keep them away from each other.

p.s. good idea, Brad, though I am not sanguine about participation and it seems Bush is banking on a quick war anway.