Drove back to NAPA this morning and spent $9.04 of my hard-earned lucre to get myself a new gas-cap.

I like the old one better.

Be that as it may, I will obey the government diktat and rip the original gas-cap off its tether and replace it with the flimsy piece of crap I just purchased. I'll probably wind up losing the damned thing too -- I don't see any way to attach the new one to the old plastic tether. So it's only a matter of time before I inadvertently leave it at the gas station and have to buy yet another one.

Maybe that's the state's plan: to generate sales tax revenue. You know: the sales tax they just raised to pay for a convention center. You know: the convention center that no one would voluntarily invest in. You know: private investment, which pretty much doesn't happen anymore in Ohio.

You think in the future they'll have mandatory home inspections to make sure you've replaced all your incandescent and halogen light bulbs with those ugly-ass CFCs? Maybe. But by then we'll probably be lighting our homes with torches and roasting our meats on the tines of giant pitchforks (so common will those implements be).