Be sure you read Syria Comment today for a pretty good rundown on what the possibilities and challenges are in that region. Remember, Lebanon is another tribal society and all of them are at each others throats all the time. There is very little power in a negative: Bush is Hitler, so-and-so is a Communist, and so on. Get Syria out has no lasting power. Iraq is working----hopefully---because the Iraqis saw a future building.

Great news for all you heroin addicts; you can stay loaded for an entire year on the Canadian Government.

Vancouver is the first city to take part in the North American Opiate Medication Initiative, which plans to enroll 470 participants at three sites in Canada. The Toronto and Montreal sites are expected to begin recruiting candidates this spring.

Get up there and register. And we all knew this was coming.

Be sure you check out Jerry Brown's blog (link on left) for some good clean "fun" in Oakland. It's a little wilder than the cruising we used to do---rapes, murders, mayhem---but the same idea. Problem is that it is now an actually serious problem with no way to cope with the tens of thousands of "cruisers" hitting Oakland. Their purpose is to get "crunk" which is a combination of the words "crazy" and "drunk." As is usual, California uses an even more private term called "hyphee," but this stuff is dangerous.

The Mt. Kilimanjaro scare story is HERE. Ice cap virtually gone and it's all the fault of----guess who??? The EU weenies with an unemployment rate in double digits want to cripple us too. Read it. There is no scientific backup to the statement that this is the first time in 11,000 years that the mountain has had no ice cap. No details on what the climate was like 11,000 years ago, just it's America's fault. Late Add: it seems that Cro-Magnons may have used fires made from asphault deposits which destroyed the ozone 30,000 years ago but because the Cro Mags were European nobody wants to talk about it.