the happy homewrecker

I looked out the bedroom window this morning and saw a whole lot of bugs flying around, their bodies glinting in the sunlight. When I came downstairs and went into the sunroom, I saw them all over the window screens: mayflies. We'd been warned about them, but I'd sort of forgotten. I don't like bugs, especially ones that fly around aimlessly and land on me. I think I'll be staying inside for awhile.

I was tickled to death to find this article online; I'd read it in the paper last weekend and wanted so badly to share it. I was willing to type the whole thing in, but now I don't have to!

A Different Kind of Car Talk: Sam Bell encourages people to ride bikes. That may not seem so unusual, except that Bell is an auto mechanic. When looking for an auto-repair shop, owners of gas-guzzling SUVs might want to steer clear of The Lusty Wrench.

Speaking of automobiles and trying to improve mileage and emissions and such:

"Bush's hydrogen-automobile proposal is purposely engineered to be fossil fuel dependent, and it is paid for by taking money out of programs that are actually reducing fossil fuel use . . . the Bush Administration has been working quietly to ensure that the system used to produce hydrogen will be as fossil fuel-dependent - and potentially as dirty - as the one that fuels today's SUVs. According to the administration's National Hydrogen Energy Roadmap, drafted last year in concert with the energy industry, up to 90% of all hydrogen will be refined from oil, natural gas, and other fossil fuels (2). Such a system, experts say, would effectively eliminate most of the benefits offered by hydrogen because the Bush plan's use of oil/coal/gas to create fuel cells would generate large amounts of pollution. Not surprisingly, such a system would insure the massive profits of the energy industry, which bankrolls Bush's campaign . . . Bush moved money into his hydrogen program at the same time he 'ended an eight-year program to help automakers develop high-mileage, family size cars' such as the successful hybrids now beginning to permeate the U.S. market."