Neil Young uses Al Gore's movie for music video.

It works pretty well.

I've never owned a car, let alone a new one, but it seems likely to happen sooner or later. This is the kind of thing I long for. Saab Unveils World’s First Biofuel Hybrid.

It's ethanol rather than Biodiesel, and it's a concept car, but it shows that automakers may be at least attempting to move in the right direction.

My ideal is a Biodiesel Hybrid light pickup. Here's hoping.

Going back through old photos... I used to be so young!

One of the things you'll hear a lot if people talk about the National Debt (that is, the cumulative deficit between spending and revenue run by the Federal Government), is that it's no big deal, because other countries have a proportionally higher amount of debt in relation to their Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which is a rough measure of total economic outpuut.

This obscures the fact that Americans have vast amounts of consumer and morgage debt compared to other nations. While our Federal Debt stands at around $8 Trillion, we collectively carry more (around $8.5T) in personal debt. This is in contrast to most other nations, where government debt is higher than personal debt.

Made it back up. It was a good quick visit to SF... next time I hope to have a bit more lesure time to see friends and stuff. This was more or less all business. Sucessful business, so that's nice, but still.

The dive was good for my mind I think, both legs solo. I have all these memories of roads, of biking down Broadway late at night in that deserted stretch in the 20s, of the steep downhill to Denver on I-70 as you break free of the mountains, of various routes I've taken to various schools, and to see women before. There's something about the experience of moving down a given piece of path when you've done it a few times in a few different states of mind. It's a touchstone for a whole lot of different feelings.

I'm having this whole separation experience from New York lately. For the first time I'm living somewhere else, thinking of calling another place "home." The times I've been away from the city in my adult life have generally been transitory. The longest stretch was when I was working on Music For America, at which point "home" was my cubicle, and I had a nice place to sleep and occasionally to party in the Mission. But that was campaigning; it was never a life, which is probably why it didn't work out for me. And after that I came back to the city.

I miss it, but not as much or as immediately as I thought. I miss it a little like like I miss my first girlfriend, who I was most purely in love with (in New York!), who I can still conjure theoretical passions for, but who I've completely accepted won't really be part of my life ever again. Not that I won't ever go back to NYC (clearly I must, and often), but at this point the idea that I might not continue to have a permanent address there has penitrated my being, and it feels... ok.

Bush is sorta AWOL on the whole middle-east thing, wants to talk about the pig he's gonna eat.

Let's not forget we've seen this kind of behavior before from W when things go wrong.

Couple of goodies from Billmon these past few days. He's a solid essayest:

One on the Mid-East Meltdown, and another on the unprofitability of our broke-ass health care system. Analysis is good, the writing is tight, and the wit is sharp:

...the health care crisis is now hitting the health care industry where it hurts most -- straight in the wallet. Whether that will will be enough to prod our GOP-run Chamber of People's Deputies into actually doing something about the problem isn't clear, but I think it at least raises the odds. After all, we're not just talking about the sickness and suffering of ordinary human beings. There are large corporations out there in real pain. Something has to be done.

Very readible stuff.

Holy shit man, it's just not the same when you can't watch 'em all in a row. More frustrating, but more better in a lot of ways. Dan's one of my favorites, and it was shitty to see Steve the hooplehead get the better of Hostetler.

Bam!