What ever happened to... that BP oil shortage in Alaska? I thought that was supposed to cripple our economy and result in an 8% increase in gas prices. Our gas went down. Everyone's gas went down and we've never heard a peep about it. Conspiracy! Speaking of BP, that's a company that knows how to write some ads. Speaking of British Petroleum, how did England get so powerful? They're such a small country filled, I kid you not, with a lot of inbred people. I read it in National Geographic so it must be true. Apparently because they haven't experienced an influx in population for hundreds of years and the fact the island is somewhat remote people are accidentally imbreeding. Granted, I think this article was written before the Chunnel, so maybe having those Frenchies in there are making for "clean" babies but still. Speaking of "clean" babies and England, did you hear the Church of England called for all severely retarded babies to be killed? Not being terribly religious I don't think it should be mandatory but I think it's a viable solution for what do with a severely disabled child at birth. Ultimately the mother (or ideally parents) will have to care for the baby and she didn't bargain for a retarded one. If it's naturally retarded, I should say, she should have a choice. If she drank or smoked it into retardation she should have to keep it to be reminded of what she did to it though. Speaking of retardation, our newly elected Democrats have proposed a plan to pull out of Iraqi in 4-6 months. Believe me, I'm a card-carrying liberal who bleeds welfare and higher taxes, but you can't just take out the troops and make everything ok. Like it or not (or not) we're in there and we need to develop an exit strategy that doesn't involve the phrase "oh well" or "screw it". Speaking of screwing it, the Cubs resigned Kerry Wood for $1.75m yesterday. Talking about stupidly staying the course. CUT HIM. Give that money to Juan Pierre or someone who can actually play. I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that he could have a healthy season but that is SO unlikely I wouldn't have paid for than $1.75 (notice the lack of the m) for him next season. Speaking of $1.75, I need to squeeze more money out of AdSense on here since I make about $1.75 a week. I was hoping to retire early on the vast profits I was going to produce but I don't think that's going to happen for less than two dollars a week unless I'm living in Uganda. Which I would never want to do. Speaking of Uganda, Jamie is going there again this summer. It will be my last time to watch Abby and that makes me sad. I guess there's always the chance I don't get into any graduate school and stay here another year and Abby would be a pretty good consolation prize. Speaking of not getting into grad school, I really need to finish my last piece. Speaking of finishing, this entry is over. Finally.