Pike2Bike was one of the high points of my year, and inspired me to actually acquire a bike for the first time in 25 years.

My current favorite: Impeachment - It’s not Just for Blowjobs Anymore. Problem, of course, is that it is the VP who has to go. Hope Fitzgerald’s prosecution of Libby winds up bringing down Dick Vadar. Remember when the panel of federal judges gave Fitzgerald authority to force the journalists to testify because, in their view, Fitzgerald had presented evidence to them of crimes so significant that they trumped the press’s right to protect the identity of sources. What crime, or crimes, would have that effect on a panel of federal judges, one of whom clearly stated that he was predisposed to protect the principle of anonymity of sources? My own personal reaction: treasonous conduct on the part of the OVP in outing a CIA agent and destroying a CIA asset front company, along with all the other repercussions of such an outing.

May the Force be with Patrick Fitzgerald. Of course, the perfect way to totally change the subject and insulate the executive branch is to start another war, this time with a country that does have nuclear ambitions, regardless of the probability that Iran can be contained without a war that could be the 21st century equivalent of the one associated with the assassination of that duke.

Nucking futs is an entirely too gentle aspersion to caste at these homicidal bastards.

‘Cause like I been to, y’know, Paris, Peru, y’know, I mean, uh, Iraq, Iran, Eurasia… y’know I speak very, very, um fluent Spanish — ‘Todo ’sta bien chevere’ — you got that?

Foxy Mama: Chevere…

Ugh.

I have to go find my old Todd Rundgren album (as in vinyl) and play “Don’t You Ever Listen? (Don’t You Ever Learn?)”

Dear Diary,

Well I had a chance to stop over in the home state this weekend on the way back from Hawaii. (God, I’m glad there’s government land on Maui & I can see it’s going to require a lot of in situ, hands-on work this winter.) While I was in Boise, I heard rumor of a rather disturbing grassroots movement that’s taken hold. It was started by some malcontent in Post Falls and named “Take a Bullet for Bozo”. Here it is in a nutshell. I’m now often in close proximity to the President. Should an assassination attempt occur while I’m present, I’m to throw myself in front of W and take the bullet. If I am seriously injured or die, my family would get the fund. I started another rumor - “Save your goddamn money! That’s just not going to happen!”

There is a palpable fear out there of “Cheney in Charge” - ergo, the fund. Little do they know, he’s been in charge from the get-go. I simply didn’t have the heart to tell them.

Dirk