A couple of good political pieces today: Dean and the fighting moderates (NYTimes), and the batshit-crazy California proposal that drivers should be taxed by the mile - with help from spied gps satellite tracking (what's a little injury without insult?) - regardless of the fuel efficiency of the car they drive.

Let's see if I've got this right. The plan is to:
a) remove the incentive for people to drive clean, environmentally friendly cars that lessen our reliance on foreign oil.
b) Decrease the incentive for manufacturers to stay on a currently winning course for developing and improving cleaner-operating vehicles, by decreasing their market demand.
c) Make people who drive environmentally friendly cars pay the way for people who don't.
d) force manufacturers to put GPS tracking devices in _every_ car so that every drive you take can be tracked to the square foot.
e) tax us more to pay for the good people that proposed a) through d).

Obviously proposed by some Hummer-tooling** idiot, and if they pass this nonsense, I'm rioting.

** Hummers aren't driven. They're "tooled". Exclusively. Let them know how you feel about tooling in public.