I almost forgot about this, the emails are going around about there being a US boycott on buying gas today. Even though it may be an urban legend, still not a bad idea to pass it on just to get people talking. They way they manipulate oil prices is almost as bad as prescription medicine, they know we've got to have it so they can pretty much put whatever price tag they want on it. There's a lively discussion of the story at Suicide Girls. It still amazes me how fast Google spiders everything these days...

It's nice to know Colin Powell still has some integrity, why do I keep wondering if the big guys are threatening his family so he won't tell the truth? He often seems to have that desperate look like he really wants to say something... come to think of it a lot of Republicans have that look lately. People have to start breaking soon in the White House, surely not everyone in the current administration wants to go to hell with a guilty conscience...

Speaking of integrity, the pundits have been speculating on a big What If lately that might just save America from the hole it's fallen into (especially morally). What if John Kerry and John McCain teamed up as a bi-partisan ticket? As a person I love John McCain (and he still has a soul despite the best efforts of the Bush camp), it would be a government with a conscience, what an amazing concept. And I'm currently about as anti-Republican as you can get, so if I would vote for a Dem/Rep ticket, what about all the dissatisfied Republicans out there? I'm still trying to figure out exactly what it will take to make the American people who still support Bush snap out of it. Our military leadership is dismissing the Geneva Convention as "quaint", now we're having these witch trials to throw the scapegoats in front of the angry villagers so they'll look at them instead of Rummy. We've become the Stepford Country, it's really creepy...

I'm sure they want to divert the press away from the gay marriage stories also, "gee, they don't look that dangerous, maybe gay people are OK after all". That's got to be eating Dubya up inside, holy shit, someone actually gat a new right instead of having one taken away from them. Neat article on the Will & Grace Effect from Newsweek online, I like to think the Queer Eye guys have had a big impact on humanizing gays also, especially gay men, you know they really are not out to have sex with all you straight guys, you're not really that irresistable, trust me ;-)