It has been awhile, gentle readers, but the ANWR issue was generating some traffic, so in the interests of elucidation, we left it up for a bit. But now on with the woe: Bush has a press conference. Well, that is going to be a load. The filibuster biz is over, if only for a short while and Priscilla Owen is immediately confirmed. While all this senatorial wrangling goes on, the Amazon burns, the Senate will spend more Chinese money to build roads while constructing some import barriers against that country's vast production capacity. Good news, we didn't flush!