  I'll be leaving shortly for another mega-drive down to Portland to pick Kate up from my mom's. If I miss the worst of the holiday traffic, I'll be on the road for 7 hours or so today.
Bleh. My route is fairly boring, but at a certain point I must pass the Uncle Sam billboard, where some crackpot farmer has been posting little vitriolic slogans with a decidedly conservative bent for decades now. The most recent of these visible from the southbound lanes was "Did Jessica Lynch receive kind treatment or an apology? " That there is a person alive who can equate the treatment of Jessica Lynch to America's treatment of prisoners in this Iraq war just sickens me. Nothing like having a few hours alone in a car to stew about that. 
