So I am about 100 years behind the times, but if I wanted to get a Dance Dance Revolution kit for home use (maybe on craigslist, I'm cheap) should I get it for Xbox, PS2, or what?

Of course this is what I really want. But the neighbors might object.

Well, I don't, but the majority of Americans does.

Appalling.

Now Congress wants to give people a gas tax rebate, or even worse, suspend collection of the gas tax?! On the contrary, now is the time to raise gas taxes because oil company profits are so high they will be more likely to be absorbed rather than passed on to the consumer - and higher taxes will provide better incentives to save fuel and reduce our dependence on petrostates like Saudi Arabia

Boing Boing reports on an article in The Week magazine advocating plug-in hybrids (a good idea) but then bringing out the old canard urging a "new Manhattan project" to encourage these, rather than simply extending current tax breaks and encouraging aftermarket producers to build kits to let users upgrade their cars.

If you're a baseball fan, ignore George Whinebrenner and watch this tournament. All four games yesterday were riveting, including Cuba's very impressive win over Venezuela (where was the Castro-Chavez bet? Oil or sugar?) and the USA's squeaker past Japan on A-Rod's ninth inning base hit (and a controversial call). And world home run leade

I'm a SF Giants season ticket holder, so I certainly don't feel happy about this, but baseball has got to suspend Barry Bonds without pay this year. (Assuming an internal investigation confirms the recent SI article and book.)

It can't be good for the Giants' baseball plans this year, but on the bright side, they'll get a bunch of payroll back to spend on a non-steroid user or two.

The jokes write themselves.

Jim Bunning: "Civil liberties do not mean much when you are dead."

Patrick Henry: "Give me liberty or give me death."

Who's the (USA) patriot?

Why we are losing the war on terror.

Money quote: "So catastrophic was Bush's decision to shift his attention and resources to Iraq, when bin Laden was panting at Tora Bora, that one is tempted to rank it with Adolf Hitler's decision to invade the Soviet Union in June 1941, at a time when Great Britain was prostrate and America was still out of the war (a decision that almost certainly cost Hitler the war then and there)."

Props to Fabris for the speedskating win last night. Much deserved over the bickering Americans.