Come to Chicago! We have snow here! But maxing out at only 10-12 inches!

If the school in Chicago decides to hire me despite my horrible interview this morning, sure!

Although, I've been watching Little House on the Prairie today, and that informs me that the midwest has blizzards that kill people, old mines that little girls fall into, and something called "mountain fever" that looks exactly like Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever except that it spreads from person to person and causes people to set up completely noneffective quarantines.

Also, The Clown That Raped Sylvia. Not that they showed that one today, just that, once you've seen that episode, you can't ever unsee it.

Deregulation of the electricity industry is a slow-moving disaster. Connecticut has deregulated the generation side of electricity, and a number of independent power producers have sprung up to build plants like the one where the explosion was. Those plants don't have anything like the regulatory oversight of traditional utilities, and they don't have the years of experience. They offer lower rates to high-demand industrial plants, which are the cheapest customers to serve, leaving the traditional utilities with residential customers. Your residential rates have been subsidized by more profitable customers for years.

Deregulation of the electricity industry is a slow-moving disaster.

Plus when California deregulated, Enron set up fake brownouts so they could jack up their prices.

Plus when California deregulated, Enron set up fake brownouts so they could jack up their prices.

Yeah, I'm still kinda punch-in-the-face angry about that one.

I've moved from doing my self-evaluation to writing reviews for other people.

I'm probably not allowed to say "I like V. On sunny days, he rides a really cool motorcycle, and on rainy days he drives a very shiny muscle car", am I?

Plus when California deregulated, Enron set up fake brownouts so they could jack up their prices.

Did they fail? Because utilities are so much cheaper here than the East Coast.

I was so furious with Enron and the other companies involved in that I could hardly see straight, in part because I worked so long at a utility that, while it certainly had many faults, was working for the welfare of Georgia. A regulated utility only prospers if its service area prospers. It's easy to screw California if you work for a giant company in Texas.

This has both an awesome headline and an awesome picture!

Angry Norwegians in scuba gear chase after Google Street View car

megan, you weren't here for the brown-out and super high PG&E bills period. It sucked.