Claire Conger

I just called the CHP to complain about the illegal lane changers at the approach to the Richmond/San Rafael toll plaza. (See CalTrans Foiled by Bad Drivers.)The darling officer who answered the phone said he’d get right on it!

HA!

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What is it that people don’t get about driving rules. The rules are there so traffic flows smoothly. You, you who are not following the traffic rules, you’re causing the congestion. Who are you you think you’re so special that YOU don’t have to obey? I want to know!

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The more I think about it, the more unfair seems the pillorying of Hillary over her cattle futures investments. (See Dad Baits Daughter and Denigrates Hillary: What Can We Learn from Whitewater?)

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I finally got around to watching Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore’s expose on gun ownership in the United States.

The most important contribution Mr Moore makes in this film is to point out that in the U.S. we live in a culture of fear. He brings out this point in Sicko as well.

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I’m having dinner with my parents in their kitchen and we’re talking, as people do when they eat. It’s about the elections and my mother offers that she voted for Obama. (My dad’s a Republican, so his ballot contained McCain and other people I don’t know. This is the primary in California and your ballot contains only candidates in your party.)

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