Random Thoughts for January 8, 2009

• The Democrats reversal on their decision to seat Roland Burris in Congress has reaffirmed my decision to never register as anything other than Independent. Thank you very much.
  
• We are all just pawns in Big Oil’s sick game. Here we are, in the middle of winter – traditionally when fuel prices are at their highest – and gas prices are less than one-half what they were just three months ago. So much for the whole supply and demand argument. They raise prices, people start buying more fuel-efficient cars. So they drop prices and people, short-sighted as they are, start buying gas-guzzling SUVs again – ensuring more consumption. The cycle repeats. And repeats. And repeats. Price fixing, price gouging, call it what you will but we’re all Big Oil’s bitches, helping them attain record-setting profits every year.
  
• I wonder if there are any bipolar polar bears. Or bisexual, bipolar polar bears. That would really be something.