Thinking Of Hugo

And we think of angry Venezuela, the Middle East, and Russia every time we fill up — if we can afford to fill up. ~Victor Davis Hanson

Do we really?  It seems to me that we might just as easily think of Mexico and Nigeria.  That would make as much sense as any of these, except that no normal person thinks about any of this when he is putting gas into his car.  Strangely enough, when I was hit recently with a near-$60 gas bill I did not say, “Lousy Hugo Chavez!  Why does he persecute me so?”  Unlike Rick Santorum, I do not have an unceasing stream of panicked thoughts about the President of Venezuela.  Unlike the editors of The Daily Telegraph, I do not wake up in the middle of the night after having nightmares about Vova jacking up the petrol rates.  It seems to me that anyone who thinks about Hugo Chavez when he is at the gas station has been breathing in the fumes for a little too long.