Here’s what we need, more of Ralph Nader. When I first found out he was going to run for President again, I was surprised. Not that he’d run, but that he’s still alive.

It’s as if we don’t have enough problems with a New York Times story that backfired on the Times rather than expose some deep problem in the John McCain camp, or with Mike Huckabee now mocking on “Saturday Night Live” the fact that his staying in the race is a waste of time, or even with Bill Clinton running for President, or at least saying it’s his wife when he stumps for her.

And on top of all that, I think the world is slowing down. I heard Britney Spears is trying to see her kids again and is willing to do what it takes to regain some kind of real custody of them. Of course, this was before she went out parrrrrtying and leaving her underwear at home, or someone else’s home more likely.

I just don’t get it anymore. The media isn’t willing to focus the time on important issues, but they are willing to risk their own reputation as safeguard to information by shoveling tripe down our throats, whether it may or may not be true, or about unimportant issues like Britney fucking Spears.

And I know, this isn’t the first time I brought her name up. Nor will it be the last, but what else is there to talk about? Anyone know that there’s a new country out there?

That’s right, a new country we can probably invade and ruin, impose a positive democracy only to have the leader collapse the government and claim dictatorship. It’ll be Iraq all over again.

Anyone else notice that gas prices have been up and down around the same price lately? It’s not creeping anywhere, at least not by me. Just maybe a dime up and down here and there, but staying around $3.17 a gallon. What exactly is the US government doing about this?

They’re ensuring that all new cars must be 35 miles a gallon or better. In the next ten years. Hi, what about now?

What do you think?