Forbes just came out with its most expensive zip code list. I noted that on the list were several Silicon Valley towns, including the one where my kids went to school, and where my good friends reside. One thing that was notably interesting about the list was that for the expensive zip in NY or Miami, you're getting a mansion with property. In Los Altos & Portola Valley, you're getting a pretty normal house. 4 bedrooms, two bath, often with dry rot and termite damage for $2.4 million plus. Stay with me now, because I know the prices seem ridiculous, but I don't know, call me crazy but for that kind of cash, shouldn't the foundation be in tact? Shouldn't it be away from the San Andreas Fault Line? You'd think so, wouldn't you?

But humans are interesting creatures. We'll live in earthquake country, pay for the privilege, imagining that it will never happen to us, that we our money will rescue us. After riding out the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, I really got a sense for God's power. He ain't playing, let me just say that. Look at the facts: FEMA can't fix things (Katrina's toll!). No humanitarian effort in the world can take away the pain in the Sudan. Pakistan still suffers from their devastating earthquake. It seems to me, God sends us a wake-up call quite regularly, and yet we as humans decide what is most valuable (according to Forbes) with no regards that money can't protect us. Now comes word there's a whole contingent of people who believe 9/11 was a government conspiracy, and that a missile tore into the Pentagon, not a plane. Um, even though everyone on that plane is dead, and the black box was found there. Is it any wonder people have trouble with faith in the Bible? It's so much easier to think, that too, was a conspiracy. Ah, the more I know humanity, the more I like my cat. : )