The Strategic Petroleum Reserve

President Bush is opening it. Watch the price drop, especially on the news that the oil rigs in the Gulf aren't severely damaged.

Looting

It breaks my heart to see the looting in New Orleans. It confirms my worst fears that a significant precentage of humanity are scumbags and that left to their own devices will devolve into animals. Absent religion to temper the man's baser instincts, there need to be moral men armed to the teeth to enforce the basic tenets of civilization. Needless to say, the whole world is watching via satellite TV. I'm sure they think this is a lovely portrait of America. It's Lord of the Flies time in The Big Easy.