"$92 a /month/? What?" The car insurance was something a little over $400 a year last I knew. "And what's with this monthly bill? When did that happen?"

I'm terribly disappointed. I think we have been badly beaten.

"Hi, I'm collecting signatures to repeal Maine's Real ID law. Are you familiar with that? Are you a registered voter here in Maine?" I emphasize the word "repeal" and jam the questions together. While I'm talking I'm flashing the ban Real ID stickers on my clipboards. I've got the logo on my shirt.

There will be no postings here, as little work done for paying clients as can be arranged, as few weeds pulled from the garden and certainly no grass mowed while I work on the Real Repeal campaign.

"Tsunami", my friend Shelley replied. A single word to an email I'd forwarded her about Costco not having rice on the shelves.

The Gamble of RealID.

This Representative seems to be working out the answer with a deck of cards during the debate over caving in to Chertoff.

The last storm in February, the snow on each side of the path was close to chest high. Instead of throwing the snow that high I started whacking it down. No more shovelling. With the recent warmer days and the rain, I can see the footprints in the white ice: me in my Sorrells, Salieri cat with the six toes, a few chippy feet and those of an errant chicken.

"The gap is too wide," the legislator emailed me.

LD2283 does nothing to improve Maine's electrical power situation. In combination with the bill on Energy Corridors, it is a give away to foreign and alien corporations. As is true of every "solution" that seeks to perpetuate our current economic paradigm, it makes matters worse.