OK, so I'm tempted to say that the most important thing right now is the fact that Texas residents disembarking from a cruise ship at a port in Texas are limited to 1L of alcohol per person and that you can't even pay duty on anything in excess. But I won't.

I'm very tempted to agree with IDCrewDog, but I'm not going to do that, either.

My biggest concern right now is the current Administration's lack of respect for the Constitution. They're using 9/11 as an excuse to winnow away our freedoms, to invade privacy on an unprecedented level, and far too many people are OK with it. Rights have been squahsed during times of war in the past, but the "War on Terror" is not a Senate-declared war and it's likely never going to end.

Sometimes, I feel like President Bush and his buddies are sitting around, having a couple of beers, and saying, "OK. We tapped phones and didn't get in trouble. And we poked around in their library records, their bank records, and didn't get in trouble. So what can we do next?" I do not trust any of them. I wouldn't trust them to walk me across the street safely if I was a little old lady.

I'm far too lazy at 7 a.m. to look it up, but I think it was Ben Franklin who said that those who were willing to exchange freedoms for security deserved neither. Amen to that.