Halloween is rapidly approaching. That is not scary but what is is the fact that three months from today is Christmas. Yikes! Have you started your Christmas shopping yet? I haven't and don't plan to. That is, I only need one gift and I am never sure what to buy that one person so I gave up years ago trying to figure it out. Now I just buy whatever pops into my mind at the last minute. Ha!

Attorney-General Rumsfeld continues to make an ass of himself. No matter what he says, he sounds so much like a whiney, frustrated little boy who can't get anyone to believe what he says. "The sky is falling, the sky is falling". Or - "things are improving in Iraq". If he would like to spend a few billion of pentagon funds in the Bay Area, I have a couple of lovely bridges that I would like to sell him.