In his weekly radio address Barack Obama said that he wants to install energy-saving light bulbs in federal buildings to cut costs and create jobs. Hmm. I would've thought federal buildings already have someone on staff who can change light bulbs.

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Buzzards are circling my house about ten feet off the ground. I wonder if they know something I don't.

People in the Northeastern US are suffering from a record ice storm. I'll bet they wouldn't mind some global warming. I think it's time for Al Gore to put up or shut up.

There has been a lot of talk in the media about the negative symbolism from an Iraqi journalist throwing his shoes at President Bush. They haven't said much about the positive symbolism from several other Iraqi journalists jumping up and taking the shoe thrower down to the floor and restraining him.

My yard is filled with Robins for the first time in several months. Does that mean Spring has arrived?

I hear that Vice President-elect Joe Biden will oversee a task force that will make recommendations on how to build the ranks of the middle class. As far as I can see, he plans to do that by moving people down from the ranks of the wealthy.

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From George Will: "Friday the president gave the two automakers access to money Congress explicitly did not authorize. More money than had been debated, thereby calling to mind Winston Churchill on naval appropriations: 'The Admiralty had demanded six ships, the economists offered four, and we finally compromised on eight.'"  Priceless.

Some have said that Bernard Madoff ran the largest Ponzi scheme ever. Not even close. That record still belongs to our government's Social Security program.

Some people want more tax on fuel to discourage driving and the emission of carbon. But they want to spend it on improving the highway system which would encourage driving. The real reason? More money flowing through the government.

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More from Winston Churchill via Burt Prelutsky:  For a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.