Tread Lightly - Ben, how is the über-trendy anti-SUV movement faring in your corner of California? Here's a NY Times article out of Marin County, where "wealth and liberal politics converge." But have they caught the save-a-gallon bug down in Thousand Oaks? Yeah, you and I both drive Explorers, I know, but at least I put very few miles on mine. So I can still be smugly superior to those H2 drivers, right?

(I had to chuckle seeing a billboard for Hummer at the Courthouse Metro station the other day. Some waggish vandal had modified the slogan "It does great at the poles" by inserting the word "melting" after "at.")