but adults? Adults leave that behind. Not because they should, but because, at some point, emotional fantasy becomes so obviously unreal that you'd no more indulge it than you'd indulge eating pizza all day (unless you're 20 and have a cast-iron liver...).

A good review. Proves once again that human beings have some real problems leaving youth behind. Me? I'd like my 16-year-old body back, but no other part of being 16, other than the '70s themselves, which would have been a lot more fun for my 50-year-old mind in my 16-year-old body. ;>

But to go back to all that in the here and now, emotionally? Gah. I don't get the women who do that. And the entire scene of these books seems to reinforce every rotten stereotype of relations between men and women, seems like that alone would turn off any thinking person.

But, then I'm not a woman, either. I guess some things are irresistible, no matter your age. Me, I've never wanted to go back to high-school..not for any reason.

It also strikes me there is some pretty creepy subterranean emotional currents running in these books. Is the author doing her own projecting here, or is she a brilliant analyst of a certain kind of woman? Both, probably.

Dick. do your homework. Even WITHOUT trying to run the entire country on natural gas, North America is poised on the edge of a natural-gas cliff. Canadian fields, where we get a significant amount of our n-g are near peak, US fields have been declining for decades.

n-g fields do not decline slowly, either. One day they're producing, the next day, they're done. So when the shit happens, it's gonna be ugly.

We need to be looking at solar for electrical generation plants...out in the desert, using mirrors to focus sunlight for heat...a couple of companies are developing this technology, and it works. Our wholly-owned subsidiary of the oil-industry otherwise known as the Federal Government has no interest in providing seed money for the project however. What a surprise.

The age of oil is over. We got 100 good years. Now the party is over, and we better figure out what to do before we're in a nuclear war with China over the last of the fossil fuels.

n-g ain't savin' anyone's bacon, 'cept maybe Russia, who has a lot of it in the ground. Stuff is too expensive and too difficult to transport over the ocean in large quantities... even if we wanted to put ourselves in hock to the Russians for the next 50 years..and even that wouldn't work since, more and more, fossil-fuel producers are sequestering their own supply, for the future. Not selling it.

We let our oil companies sell off the entire treasure of US fossil fuels for their profit. We're pretty fucking stupid.

I listen to Rush very rarely. But the few times I have listened to him it's been very clear that he's not a "conservative" at all. He's just an entertainer with a very stupid audience. That's pretty much it.

Remember, Andrew, Rush has access to regular focus-group testing of his audience (Rush would deny it, but it has to be true..no company would invest so much in Rush without checking in with the audience on a regular basis), and no doubt the subject of big cars shows up regularly in the minds of dittoheads.

Rush is an entertainer, with a specific audience. Were he suddenly told that his future livelihood depended on appealing to 80 year-old grandmas in outer-mongolia, he'd start complaining about the state of yurts today.

This is how radio works. I realize his audience takes him seriously. But no-one else should.

T. boone pickins is out for T. boone pickins. He wants to run cars on natural gas. He is dreaming. totally. Dreaming. Of profits for him.

What he appears not to understand, which is odd, is that we are rapidly running out of natural gas, and it's VERY expensive to transport from elsewhere.

Yeah, it's a plan all right. A plan for T. Boone.

Electric transportation is in your future. His future. Everyone's future. It's the only option we'll have, if we're lucky.

As for our politicians, any of them, actually ADDRESSING the problem of the energy power-down? forget it. They can't afford to. They wouldn't get a single vote if they told the truth to the American Electorate..which is dumb as dirt, and easily fooled.

When the time comes, we'll simply declare war on someone to distract away from the problem. Pray it's not nuclear war.