Does this thing still work?

Yeah, yeah, yeah… I know. Over a year has slipped away since I last posted. Instead of offering lame excuses, I’ll tell the truth…. 1) I’ve been lazy, 2) I was busy playing Scrabble and 3.) I’ve been lazy.

It’s been quite a year though…

In our lovely Alaska town, Suburban Blight, the price of gasoline is almost half of what it was earlier this year. Given the state of our economy, this is no big surprise. (If you want insightful writing on the economy, check out my wife’s blog, www.omegamom.com. If not, read on.) But still… petrol has dropped two bucks a gallon! Wow. To me, this has raised a big red flag that everyone else seems to have missed.

The banks are slurping up a bailout, and the American automakers are begging one. Wall Street is a mess—even Walmart stock is behaving poorly. The housing market is gone. G-O-N-E gawwwnnnnn. But petroleum is off by half and the oil companies are…

Strangely quiet. The financial world has found the proverbial handbasket of hell, and the oil comps are silent. And no one seems to be wondering why? Why aren’t they whining? Why aren’t they pissing? Moaning? Bellyaching?

Simple, they’ve been screwing us for years, and they know if they pitch a fuss right now, we might just notice that they are still making money hand over fist.

But then again, we might not. This is America, after all. This is the country that elected George Bush twice and destroyed another country for no good reason at all. This is the land where millions of people purchased homes they couldn’t afford with credit they didn’t have. This is the country that ignored global warming until we couldn’t afford to pay the air conditioning bill any longer. Face it, we aren’t all that bright.

So if the oil companies want to continue putting the squeeze on us while the rest of the economy goes south, the only response I can muster is… well… fuck us. We've got it coming.