Kevin Drum finds more evidence that the oil supply is becoming a problem–from the oil industry itself. A ExxonMobil report suggest that we have all but reached peak oil production in all the non-OPEC countries. Moreover, there’s a real question as to whether OPEC countries can keep pace with even the more optimistic demand estimates.
In other words, don’t hold your breath waiting to see $1/gallon gas again anytime soon.

Wow. Taken away from the Capitol in handcuffs no less. No shortage of drama in Nashville this morning. News conference scheduled at noon.

A bicycling event in Washington, D.C., gets canceled thanks to the security headaches:

Since 1999 BikeDC has been the most visible feature of WABA’s mission. It has provide us with an opportunity to educate people of all ages in proper cycling technique in a safe and fun environment, and to improve our advocacy efforts, both through membership recruitment and by calling the attention of local elected officials and the public at large to the fact that bicycling is important for healthy and sustainable communities. However, because of the unique security challenges we now face in DC, the number of agencies and jurisdictions involved in the permitting process for the event has increased dramatically. Accordingly, WABA needs to take time out in 2005 to evaluate whether to continue the event in the future or to achieve our goals in other ways.

I must have missed the law enforcement bulletin warning of foreign males peddling suspicious-looking Treks, Giants, and Cannondales.

Alas:

It was a culinary rebuke that echoed around the world, heightening the sense of tension between Washington and Paris in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. But now the US politician who led the campaign to change the name of french fries to “freedom fries” has turned against the war.
Walter Jones, the Republican congressman for North Carolina who was also the brains behind french toast becoming freedom toast in Capitol Hill restaurants, told a local newspaper the US went to war “with no justification”.

It appears much of that irrational wartime exuberance is drying up. Perhaps we need some new SUV magnets and country music songs to keep the fire burning.

A Baptist church sports a sign which reads “The Koran needs to be flushed.”
Regardless of what you think of the Koran, this is an ineffective way of doing anything other than stir people up.