It’s beginning to seem that the entire West is either actively burning or in imminent danger of it. This evening I learned that the Montana cabin I had hoped to work on this weekend is no longer accessible to people who are not firefighters. Mom tells me the woods are alight up there and the whole drainage has been evacuated. That’s after leaving Wichita in 110-degree heat […]
American dream: Next five exits
Every road trip I take, I always imagine that this will be the one where I discover the real America. Now it’s not yet July and I’ve already driven a few thousand miles; I’ll drive a few thousand more in the next few weeks. I’m finally willing to concede that the forest of signs around every freeway exit might be as real as America gets these days. […]
Give me liberty, and give me dinner
Consumers cut driving but not eating, a new Reuters/Zogby poll shows. This is hardly surprising; forced to choose between feeding their SUVs or themselves, most sane people are going to choose their own pie holes, right? What gets me is the poll’s assumption that the most obvious way to compensate for high gas prices is by stinting at supper. Not this consumer. I’ve got a whole other […]