Here's an interesting thing. This website is basically photos of a demonstration in San Francisco during a visit paid by our Vice President, Dick Cheney. If you scroll down (and down and down and down) there's a picture of counter demonstrators (i.e., pro-Cheney). Beyond the fact that it's sort of news to me that Dick Cheney invokes such strong positive feelings that people would spend a day marching in a circle to express their love, I'm sort of charmed by one of the signs that reads, 'Cheney ROCKS.' I love that. From now on, whenever Dick Cheney's name comes up in conversation--whether I'm a part of that conversation or not--my lighter will be out of my pocket and lit over my head and I will be heard to exclaim, "Cheney rocks!"

Oh, and if I had the germ of an idea that it might be fun to live in San Francisco at some point in my life (and that is verrrrry unlikely), it's gone now.