The French Parliament is inserting the word environment into their constitution. And the Green opposes such change.

Very amusing. Of all fractions, it is the Green that opposes (the other lefties abstain) instead of the right.

p/s - Safire is a goddamn hilarious man. He hates the French, he hates the democrat and he hates the penny. And yeah, abolish the penny! LOL!

pp/s - I thought the oil price was stabilizing at the new price. But, the new price is at $42.45 per barrel - no thanks to the newest incident in Saudi Arabia. And hell, air travel is going to be expensive.

ppp/s - Jeffrey Chen died in a plane crash on Monday. I first read about it in the paper but I was not sure whether it was the same Jeff that I knew. A news through the Solar Car Team's mailing list later confirmed this, unfortunately.
I don't really know him because I didn't really talk to him a lot. But I do remember that he was cheerful in most cases and he gave me rides to and fro Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor. And he did smile to me whenever he bumbed up with me.
May God bless him.

p^4/s - A joke on Bush for comparing so-called war on terrorism with WWII.
If Bush was alive on December 8, 1941:
"My fellow Americans. Yesterday was a day that will live in infamy. We were the victims of a vicious and unprovoked attack by the Empire of Japan.Therefore, I have decided to attack Spain."