Another sunrise

That's two in a row. Weather person thinks we will reach into the 60s F for the next couple of days, may reach 70 on Monday. Wave bye-bye to the snowdrifts, children...

Acrimonious debate

I believe that there is a limit on how far a "free" society can restrict the actions of sane and law-abiding citizens in order to impede the insane and criminal in their attempts to do bad things to others. Or even to impede the attempts by stupid and self-destructive people to do bad things to themselves.

How many people does alcohol kill each year?
How many people die from tobacco each year?
How many people do cars kill each year?
How many people die from overeating and lack of exercise each year?

Annual death toll a few years back, more people died in snowmobile accidents in this state than were murdered. A couple of them were not snowmobilers. Innocent bystanders. I've come damn close to being run over by one. Very few people _need_ a snowmobile.

Where's paranoia when you really need it?

I keep expecting Homeland Security, or Gonzales, or Shrub, or some such wingnut in power, to announce that the tainted pet food was actually a failed Osama attack on the US _human_ food supply.

That feels better

Got out for a bike ride in the heat of the afternoon*, first one in almost a month due to the combined factors of weather and plague. Still using the mountain bike -- Elder Son verified a day or so back that the roads are not yet bike-friendly. If Maine roads ever are.

8 miles +/-, 40 minutes.

*63 F right now...