Gas is $9.40 a gallon in Germany.

German man torches car to protest high gas prices - Yahoo! News

The U.S. would come to a screeching halt if gasoline got to, say, $7 a gallon (which would occur at the $200 a barrel mark, which we aren't at all far from right now).

Poor dude. At least in Europe there is decent public transportation across the entire continent.

It's time to buy canned and dry foods in bulk while they are still relatively cheap (if you're into saving your money, anyway). You'd see a lot of empty shelves in grocery stores at $7 a gallon gas.

The worst is yet to come.

KrisCan Speaks with James Howard Kunstler : KrisCan

KrisCan Speaks with James Howard Kunstler : KrisCan

Check out this grrrl's blog/internet show about Peak Oil. The link goes straight to an interview with James Howard Kunstler, author, architectural critic and suburbia-hater.

By the way, I really dig KrisCan. She's smart and she's entertaining--and her site has a relevant message. Her interviews with her neighbors are great, too.

Keith Olbermann is maybe one of the best.

He held down the MSNBC fort quite admirably yesterday. I personally don't know how I would stay on live television talking for seven-plus hours about a friend and mentor who had just died and be able to hold it together.

He is just that good. Tim Russert would have been proud.

Military Commissions Act of 2006: Fini

I hated the Military Commissions Act of 2006.

Thank god there are some freedom lovers at the Supreme Court. Habeas Corpus has been returned.

Kucinich talks, no one listens.

Dennis Kucinich is delivering a speech outlining 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush as I write this. It's almost midnight on the east coast; I've been listening to him for awhile now, and I haven't heard one thing that I understand to be incorrect. It's the dirty laundry list of the idiocy of the president's politicization of his terms in office, choosing politics over doing the right thing every time at the least--and downright thuggery, lies, and gross negligence at the worst.

Some items may or may not be impeachable, but they're disgusting. Other items on the list are irrefutably true and completely worthy of impeachment hearings, like the Katrina response, reports of voting irregularities in Ohio in 2004, suspending posse comitatus and habeas corpus, ignoring intelligence warnings preceding 9/11, and cooking up a war to sell to frightened people who were still mad about 9/11, even though Iraq had nothing to do with that.

I'm sure the media will not cover this story, or if they do, they will marginalize it, per usual, pulling out "that kooky Kucinich" line again. CSPAN carried the whole speech, and I watched the last 40 minutes of it. Dennis seemed sober and very serious. He presented supporting evidence with each item on his list.

Excellent television, to be sure.