[Boomer]

What you are saying is, of course, right. I try not to think about such serious matters, but that has never worked out for me much.

Like I said earlier, just how many golf carts will it take to haul the grocery money to the store?

The Fed fears inflation more than anything so they leap in and lower the interest rate and lower the interest and lower the interest rate. I know that is the Fed's job, but still... The only memory the Fed has seems to be of the Carter years. And how's that been workin' for us this century? I just want to buy Alan Greenspan dinner so I can pick his brain.

And while looking for new energy sources is all well and good, (you know, like those articles said in the Popular Science and Popular Mechanics from the 1950's) what are we supposed to do right now?

This oil fiasco is going to swallow everything in its path. Driving to the $10 an hour job on the $4 a gallon gas is just not going to work out much longer for a lot of people.

Restaurants are suffering so just imagine how they will have to do the pricing in the "recession proof income" territory.

And my hairdresser told me the other day that women are putting off having their roots done. Now, THAT, boys, is a serious indicator of economic problems.

Anyway, what do I know and I really have to get out of here. I'm still trying to figure out what "stagflation" means.

But, Russ, I have to digress a bit further and comment on what you said about Giada.

We went to a big computer store to buy a laptop. Food Network was running on every screen in the place. Our salesperson told us that is what they always have on because there is little chance of anything a customer might find offensive showing up on the screens.

But he also said that when Giada comes on, nobody pays much attention to the customers because the geeks are all standing around the screens drooling. And, you know what, they are not even writing down any recipes.

Boomer