It's a two-fer Tuesday in my world, as I'm doing not only my job this week, but most of the job of my vacationing co-worker. (I say "most" because I can't do all the wonderfully creative things she can do, but I can squeak by.)

Hopefully, 12 hours from now, a 48-page newspaper will be off to the printer. (It's a good thing it's not traveling by car, so it doesn't have to fill up on increasingly pricey gas -- $3.69 a gallon tonight!)

Which brings me to this thought: Are the oil companies raising prices -- literally up 22 cents in eight days -- now so they can lower them in time for the November election? Because that's what usually happens, you know? (You don't? Well, you should pay closer attention come November.)