Even More IR

Woman in Garden, Central Park




Sitting in Sun (Schurz Park)

I'm still in IR mode. I might be there for a while. More to follow...

Energy Caeser

I've decided to apply for the new post of Energy Caeser. My major plank is going to be that gas prices in our empire should be controlled so that they are steady - and most importantly as high as gas prices in Europe. My theory is that this is the best way to encourage alternative sources of energy and will force what are already global car manufacturing companies to sell the cars they sell in Europe to America.

True - these cars don't have room for DVD players, or even cup holders - but we are an adaptive people and will learn to hang our coffee from flasks around our necks if we need to. And don't forget - we invented miniature golf!

Now my campaign advisor believes this is idiotic because the car is the American symbol and has roots going back to the cowboy era. Americans want big, fast and powerful machines that say who they are. Not these cracker boxes.

Oh that's good. He's just arrived with a flak jacket for my first news conference. It has a couple of holes in it. He says he got it at Walmart. No - don't worry, he says. The holes are from the last politician that took this stance.

Who was that, I ask?

Someone you never heard of, he says smiling. But if you look beneath the Meadowlands you might find him.