Tuesday, May 6, 2008

I thought that the war in Iraq was “blood for oil.” We’ve seen plenty of blood. Where’s the oil? Is it possible that we can spend $500 billion on a war that we can’t easily win and not get any sort of break on the oil that’s in the ground we’re trying to liberate? Yes, I guess it is. I've got to say that it seems pretty far-fetched to think that the oil companies are going to pay the gas taxes this summer. It seems like the price of crude oil might be more responsible for the high oil prices than taxes. Maybe we should get a few million barrels a day from Iraq for liberating them. I’m sure I don’t know what I’m talking about, but I needed to vent.

Cedric Benson’s boat has grown seven feet and now it’s a yacht. Apparently anything over thirty-two feet is considered a yacht. If I had a yacht, I would want the boating powers that be to work on raising the “yacht” designation up to at least fifty feet. Speaking of fifty feet, how about all of those people on Cedric’s yacht? Actually, and ironically (or is it coincidentally?), he only had thirty feet on his former thirty-foot craft. That’s still a lot of people, even on a thirty-seven foot boat. Cedric’s lawyer said he wasn’t sure if the police were qualified to give field sobriety tests on water. Maybe they should call them water sobriety tests.

I have been learning a lot about bees lately. Male bees don’t have stingers for one thing. That has really shaken the JOEBEES bee bit to its very core. I am tempted to turn him into a bumblebee, but that doesn’t say bee pollen to me, it says tuna. Male honeybees are called drones and buzz ferociously because they don’t have stingers. Thousands of drones chase after the queen and she will “do it” with about ten of them.  Then all of the males die and the female worker bees do all of the work for the queen. She secretes a pheromone that makes the other females uninterested in sex and eats all of the other queens (her mother and sisters). That’s a rough family.