Truth
I went to see Al Gore's flick this week. Wow, that's pretty scary -- but there were no real surprises. It's pretty easy to believe that the Earth is getting hotter if you live here in New Mexico! Seriously, there has been a drought here for a few years, and it hardly rains or snows anymore at all. I can remember when I was a kid, somewhere there in the 60's of the last century, when the seasons were a pretty regular thing. It rained when you expected and then got warm in the summer and then the rains came again and so on it went. Somewhere in the intervening years I started to notice that there was less and less predictability in the weather. Now it seems to be completely out of whack with severe conditions all around us. For my part, I try to keep my consumption at a minimum.

I've always liked Al Gore. In 2000 I had some strange idea that it didn't matter all that much who ended up as President so I was too busy to vote for the guy. I had faith in our long cherished system of checks and balances, and I was pretty sure that the Executive Branch would have some respect for that. I was mistaken of course... Congress seems to be in the role of either a rubber stamp on one side, or an ineffectual bunch of squabblers on the other (at least to hear the media talk about it). The Supreme Court is stacked, and all other courts are full of "activist judges" who must be opposed and thwarted at every turn. The news people have apparently been ordered to refer to Bush as Commander in Chief at every available opportunity, and he's the only one that gets to decide anything anymore. I'm sorry, I don't want a Fuhrer in charge -- I liked the set up the Founding Fathers came up with. I was among the tiny percent of voters in the last primary, and I plan to at least be an informed participant from now on. And that's the truth.