Morning Constitutional 1

I'm addicted. I'm addicted to the train wreck that is C-SPAN Washington Journal. In addition to getting to listen to the inanities of the various government officials that show up, the fact that they take unscreened calls means the wackjobs from all sides of the political spectrum are free to call in and spout whatever crap the aliens that control their thoughts were able to get through the tinfoil that morning.

See guys, the key is: you have to rotate the tinfoil cap 90 degrees every three days; otherwise, the ions get lined up and the mindrays will start to penetrate. I'd explain this to you in more detail, but Dennis Kucinich could explain it in far more detail than I ever could.

At any rate, watching Washington Journal usually leaves me in one of two states: despair, due to the overwhelming stupidity of the callers, who will spend the rest of the day driving around in front of me; or confidence, knowing that if there are people this moronic out there, I must be pretty far ahead of the curve.

So - today's entry was a call for Clay Sell, the deputy Secretary of Energy, who was there to discuss the energy policy proposals in President Bush's State of the Union speech. I didn't get to hear his entire segment, but no doubt most of the calls were exploring conspiracy theories involving Cheney, Halliburton and ExxonMobil to control the world's oil. However, there were some calls that tried to provide some useful advice for the Secretary:

Why don't we do something like what they already have, where, with their cars, you can just open your door and that's enough power to power your car to wherever you need to go. I mean, you can use magnetism, you can use solar, you can use wind. Even just driving in your car is enough wind to make enough power to keep it going.

Yeah! That's the obvious answer to our energy problems - why don't we all just drive around in perpetual motion machines? If only Bush had proposed that, why - he'd be a genius!

Ah - now I'm ready to take on the day.