Since the theme of the morning is “Happiness,” I ask: I like happiness as much as the next person, but in the Bill Joy sense — a little act can destroy all life — aren’t we doomed.

ze Frank: I’ll handle this one. I’ve done a lot of research on happiness in single-cell animals. And, in that sense, no, we’re not doomed.

Q: What about these emalis I’m getting from Nigeria?

ze Frank: They’re all real. What you have to do is haggle with them.

Q: In taking the two kids out of Bhutan for the tour with the giant book ultimately make them less happy?

Michael Hawley: Not in these two cases. One wants to be a spiritual leader in Bhutan and the other wants to become a doctor.

Q: I hear Bhutan has a high tax for visiting.

Hawley: Yes. But there’s only one flight in a day. Only 6,000 people a year get to see it. It’s not a place where you rent a Hertz and bomb around.

Q: You haven’t stressed enough that we need to engage in order to change the world.

Alex Steffen: Yes, there’s lots of work to do. And thank goodness, President Bush has been a uniter … against his policies.

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