What kind of good did you ever do?

Yesterday, May 15, 2007, was a day organized -- or attempted to be organized -- across America to boycott gasoline. To protest rising and unreasonablly high gas prices. A temporary moratorium on our addiction to the slimy, yet combustable, residue of animals long dead and buried deep.

The statistics being passed around went something like this:

If everyone in America stops using gas for one day Oil Companies will lose over a billion dollars in sales. We did it back in 1997 and the next day gas went down thirty-five cents.

So on May 15, 2007, the citizens of the United States of America attempted to not buy fuel to power their personal go-go machines for one day.

When America awakened on the morning of May 16, 2007-- when we got in our gasonline propelled vehicals and headed to work, we Americans found that gas had increased by ten cents a gallon over the night.

Bend over and take that.

Breakfast of Champions

"I think I am trying to make my head as empty as it was when I was born into this damaged world...

I suspect that this is something most white Americans, and nonwhite Americans who imitate white Americans, should do. The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head.

I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore."

- Kurt Vonnegut