I make a game of driving in traffic. It can actually be fun if you "depersonalize" the experience. People pay good money for high definition video games so why not treat actual driving as a game - minus the physical contact, of course.

The best part of the game is predicting what the other driver will do. This comes with experience because you must detect the behavior that signifies a lane change, for example. When the other car starts drifting towards your lane and then moves into your lane you are not surprised, or angry, because you new it was going to happen. Score one for you.

If you can edge forward and cause the other driver to change his mind, score two for you.

Coming to an intersection and seeing a fast moving car approaching from the cross street. The light turn green for you but will the other car stop? Assume that he will run the red light. Score three for you.

Keep a pad of paper and a rubber stamp handy. That simplifies the scoring while driving, or reach out the window and stamp the area just below the window sill. Like fighter pilots do.

The GOP is married to the carbon industry, and the chemical industry, and the consumption industry.

Against this, does anyone seriously believe that Pickens' ideas are going to stand a chance?

On the other hand, if his message is attractive to the brain-dead Fox News groupies there may be hope after all.

I guess killing animals for pleasure is OK but human birth control is not OK.

Of course Dobson will vote for McCain. Dobson is a Republican and Republicans must vote their Party ticket, no matter what.

Nothing new here.

Does she eat moosemeat or does she enjoy killing for the sport of it?

Killing for sport is one of the lowest things a person can do, in my opinion. I hate sport hunting and I seriously question the intelligence of any sport hunter that is against abortion.

Obama is smart. He will pick the right people for his cabinet. He has, and will continue to inspire Americans to accept the hope of change.

This is directly opposite the Bush Administration and More of The Same McCain.

Palin is not running for the office of president. She may merely be window dressing to pump up the Republican Party image. She will not pick the members of McCain's cabinet. She will, however, further polarize the politics in this country.

And I like the huge flag pin. I guess that is to prove that she is an American.

are good for something after all.

research the comparison of moral behavior comparing Christians to agnostics to atheists.

Here's a start:

According to a survey posted on the National Catholic Reporter, here are the percentages of people who say that torture is never justified:

26% Catholics

31% White Protestant

31% White evangelical

41% Secular

32% Overall Population

Here are the numbers who think that torture is often justified:

21% Catholics

15% White Protestant

13% White evangelical

10% Secular

15% Overall Population

has bought into this hook, line, and sinker. It fits, however.

What's with that? Bush and the Republicans are drooling at the thought of more drilling in coastal waters and Alaska but the oil companies are silent on the issue.

More campaign BS perhaps?

God's Party has a new poster boy.

Please read Revere's letter.

A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate in January 2003. After a primary victory in March 2004, Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He was elected to the Senate in November 2004 with 70% of the vote.

As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, he helped create legislation to control conventional weapons and to promote greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. During the 110th Congress, he helped create legislation regarding lobbying and electoral fraud, climate change, nuclear terrorism, and care for returned U.S. military personnel. After announcing his presidential campaign in February 2007, Obama emphasized withdrawing American troops from Iraq, energy independence, decreasing the influence of lobbyists, and promoting universal health care as top national priorities.

The facts about Palin's political performance have been revealed by the AP in an article today.

Sorry, but you really should get the facts on Palin's performance and her blatant lies.

Too numerous to list here, but the info is available in a AP news article published today.

but only wounds the moose. Doesn't kill it. The moose doesn't run away but turns and charges the shooter. Trying to reload and fire in time to avoid the angry moose the shooter is too slow. 2000 pound of moosemeat slams into the panicked hunter.

The moral of the story is that when you shoot, shoot to kill.

Palin failed at this last night.

The moose turned towards the shooter ....

She appeals to the Fox News watchers. Anyone seiously considering a candidate will not vote for the McCain-Palin ticket.

Her sound-bite speech may have fired up the "base" but they are always fired up about something anyway.

with a beehive hairdo reading a scripted speech designed to inflame rather than inform.

Is this 2004 all over again?

We'll have an old man and a beehive hairdo running against brains and experience.

Granted, that the election will be close. We've learned that the average American's attention span and political intelligence is somewhat diminished (thank you Fox News) but enough thinking folk will vote for Obama-Biden to win hands down.

And, we should add the cost of additional Secret Service to protect these necessities.