Someone please stop congress before they pass another law!

Oh man. There's a great article on MSN about the tax break given to owners of gas-guzzling vehicles. It makes me want to puke. From the end of the article:

We might as well call this portion of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 the Osama Bin Laden Support Fund.

Ha! It would be funny if it wasn't true.

Buried Treasure

I had written a little about the organic produce yesterday, but in my haste to leave for work I lost the post somewhere in the ether. Trust me, it was a terrific piece of writing. Insightful and entertaining. It's gone now. I'll write about the produce again another time. Summer's coming, and I have lots to say.

Today I happened to be looking over a bookshelf in my room and noticed a bunch of writing journals. My esperanto workbook was the first one I picked up. Wow, I thought as I sounded out some of the words, I have pretty good handwriting when I make an effort. The next book I picked up was a simple black canvas-bound journal, my travel diary. I brought this book with me when I took my solo trip to Europe (thanks Liz!), I figured it would be more expressive than a camera in my hands. I suppose that much was probably true. I opened it up.

Iris Murdoch's Jake Donahue commented that it's always interesting to look over one's old writing: "It so rarely fails to impress." Instantly I was transported. I flipped through the handwritten pages quickly, reading about ten of them before I forced myself to put the book aside. An idea crept slowly into my head as I descended the stairs to the living room and tossed the diary into my backpack. I think it might be time to start another blog.