Who knows what to think of the announcement... Gray Davis has a few new assholes now, thanks to the federal offices that issued statements to him, describing a potential threat, but asking him NOT TO SHARE THEM WITH THE MEDIA. BART ridership has been up, so it's not all bad...

Personally, I'd take out the Golden Gate. It's not only got more icon value than the much larger yet completely unkown Bay Bridge, it's got no transit alternative. Well, I guess if the bridge were out, all the Marin people would have to leave their beemers at home and take the Bus to work every - DOH!

Consulting engineers claim that the 2 Bay Area bridges are so structurally sturdy that they could survive a truck bomb attack. These things stood up to the Loma Prieta Erathquake, after all. On the other hand, a hijacked plane could do some damage, so let's hope that hijacking a plane is a little harder than it used to be.

As for me, I crossed the ol' BB last night without giving it a thought until I was halfway to Berkeley. I admit I changed lanes and sped up once I remembered I was barreling around inside a gigantic sitting duck. But it is the frist time that "resisting fear" and "carrying on with our daily lives" has actually meant anything REAL to me. I plan to continue driving.

Thanks for lightening the traffic, though, Osama. You are doing a lot to enable my heathen existence to swarm over God's creation a little faster, a one-man spiky-haired moral scourge in a little blue truck. Luvya, ragtop.