OPS and Katrina

Wow! Another weekend passes. I thought the most noteworthy even of the whole weekend was the OPS school district story in the World-Hearld. Apparently, the Nebraska Legislature has voted to seperate OPS into three separate districts: one mostly black, one mostly hispanic, and the other mostly white. The weird thing is, its 2006. It's not the 1950s anymore. Why are we going back to segregation? This just sounds like racial division...wasn't the whole concept of "seperate but equal" already gone out the window? What is expected to come out of this whole resegregation thing?!? If people outside Nebraska didn't think we were backward before, they certainly will now.


In other news, apparently crude oil went up. Like since the highest its been since Katrina. I don't know about anybody else, but here gas ranges from $2.71 to $2.79 a gallon. Its expensive, but I keep telling people that in Europe, sometimes the tax on gasoline alone is like $2. Personally, I think that if we had more conservation measures (ie less SUVs, higher gasoline tax and much higher fuel economy standards) $3 a gallon gas (and we all know that eventually, it'll get up there again) would be less painful. I am so glad I bought my Honda car that gets 27mpg...much better than the previous car. Regardless of gas milage tho', gasoline is fairly high. My mom says it kinda reminds her of the 1970s, when gas first hit $1 and change. I remember when our pastor thought $1.49 was outrageous for gas.