If you're like me, you're wondering why gas prices have been on a steady incline for the past several weeks.  Is it cronyism by the Bush administration - an attempt to help family friends get richer?  ExxonMobil sure ain't hurtin' none.

Good thing we're liberating Iraq, and not just taking their oil.  No, that would be wrong.  Bad and wrong.  Bad, bad, bad - but perhaps a nice reparation for the administration lying to us about its reasons for going to war in the first place.