Since all the news channels are running gas price temperature stories 24/7, I suppose I can get in on the action.
Here’s a USA Gas Temperature Map. It graphically illustrates gas prices by county. Not pictured, Alaska or Hawaii. But I’m guessing those are mostly red.

Yeah. From time to time I also engaged in this kind of reading when I was in school.
Going way down memory lane . . . back in high school I had a real joke of a class. Ironically, it was physics–one of the more “advanced” courses in the school’s curriculum.
To some degree we actually covered much of the material in the text. What made it a joke, however, was that the teacher let us know what was on the test before we took it. So if you simply learned what was in the review guide, you could screw around in class–which the teacher allowed. I recall how one guy literally brought a pillow to class, stretched out on the floor, and went to sleep. Those were the days.
At least Cheney was a bit more subtle with his siesta.

Frank Herbert:

When politics and religion travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. The movement becomes headlong — faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it’s too late.

Quoted by Billmon.

Or whatever they are:

The contract provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to augment existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the United States, or to support the rapid development of new programs.
. . .
KBR may also provide migrant detention support to other U.S. government organizations in the event of an immigration emergency, as well as the development of a plan to react to a national emergency, such as a natural disaster.

Uh, “immigration emergency”? What’s that? And we’ve recently witnessed how well the government would do in getting people to such facilities in the event of a natural disaster. Not too well.
This sounds a bit creepy to me. But hey, what’s good for HAL must be good for America.

Heh:

[O]ur current situation–with so many foreign troop deployments that even military buffs can’t keep track of them all and with wars initiated essentially on presidential whim–would have horrified the Framers.

Ye Professor, during Clinton the Conqueror’s military campaigns.
It gets better. When confronted with his past comment, which apparently became inoperative once Bush took office, Reynolds says:

Er, except that war on Al Qaeda, and the invasion of Iraq, were explicitly authorized by Congress, in declarations of war and everything. After, you know, an actual attack on the United States.

Funny, I must have missed that Congressional “declaration of war” against Al Qaeda and Iraq. At any rate, how does that refute his earlier admonition against “so many foreign troop deployments”? Would the framers be any less “horrified” about the global deployment of troops in 2006 than they would have been in 1999? Have we been repatriating lots of troops over the past seven years?