Cynically Optimistic

* Premium Fuel in Iowa: $2.57. Premium Fuel in Long Island: $3.41. We joked that it would almost be worth it to get rid of all our suitcases and simply fly home with gasoline in our carry-on bags. Too bad I doubt they'd allow that.

* I was perusing my site stats and noticed I had a visitor from a place called Truth or Consequences, NM. For Real. Population: 7000. Renamed after a TV show from 1950. Classy!

* Speaking of classy, anybody heard Nelly Furtado feat. Timbaland on "Promiscuous Girl" ? Kinda Catchy. I guess the censors wouldn't let them call it "Slut!" or "Whore". Although, there was that Ludacris song, "Ho", off the album Incognegro.

* Last Friday en route to LGA, after losing signal to my local NPR station, I flipped over to KTU and heard the song Buffalo Stance, by Nenah Cherry and I nearly drove off the road laughing with glee.

No moneyman can win my love

We always hang in a Buffalo Stance

I give you love, baby not romance