A slow week

For me, anyway. I have a cold. So, my usual wit and rapier-sharp insightfulness is blunted. Bunch of bad stuff going on, like utility deregulation, but I can't chase them all right now. See this article: Energy Monoliths Could Return. This power company thing sounds a lot like the phone companies. "Deregulate us, and we'll compete!" Then, after we deregulate them: "Oh, the market doesn't work. Deregulate us more!" Sounds a lot like the cable companies too.

"We'll have the worst of all worlds: deregulated monopolies," said Lynn Hargis, a former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission lawyer now with the advocacy group Public Citizen.