Commute thoughts

Random thoughts from my commute this morning, mostly inspired by the radio.

• Katherine was actually clingy to me this morning when I was leaving (despite my refusal earlier to let her have whipped cream for breakfast). It was both disconcerting and kind of neat.
• “We shouldn’t be rattling sabres at Iraq! The government hasn’t even solved the anthrax attack yet!” I understand Jimmy Hoffa is still missing, too.

• “Security experts predict a 75% chance of a terrorist attack if we attack Iraq!” Um … are these the guys who predicted, and therefore foiled, the 9/11 attacks? Or the guys who’ve been saying that terrorist attacks were inevitable? Or what? I mean, if we could be sure of forever quelling all terrorist attacks by not attacking Iraq, that would be an interesting thought. But what are the chances of a terrorist attack if we don’t attack Iraq? Or, assuming there’s no linkage between Iraq and terrorist attacks, who cares?

• Looks like we’re “talking” with North Korea again. Pity that, since NK talking usually seems to mean “giving them all sorts of goodies in return for their doing whatever the hell they want.” On the other hand, now I’m hearing it’s likely that NK already has a few nukes — which, of course, is a whole other ball game (and is indicative of why we shouldn’t wait until Iraq has them, too … but I digress).

• “Close to soil and season.” What a great turn of phrase.

• When they finally opened the extension of the Foothill Freeway from San Dimas to I-15, they renumered it from SR-30 to SR-210 (to go with the I-210 that it is before that). Weird. Weirder is that the little spur of I-210 at the end of it down to I-10 has been renumbered to SR-57. In some ways it makes a lot more sense, but I have to wonder how many tens of thousands of dollars it cost.

• My boss is finally in the office this a.m., his family having suffered through Katherine-style flu last week. Sounds like something productive may get done.