Tuesday roadkill report

Almost no roadkill.  Flattened turtle up on the Kelly Road, barely distinct from the pavement.

Thought while bicycling:  It's a damn shame Billy Sol Estes is dead these many years.  He and the Iraq reconstruction were made for each other.

    "Here's to a fellow who couldn't think small,
    "Here's to the biggest embezzler of all..."


And he was even a Texan.  Like I said, a natural fit.

Open letter to the driver of that fat-ass motor home towing an SUV behind me out in the bog:  If you can't wait a few seconds to avoid killing someone on the road, you don't belong there.

15.29 miles, 1:04:41

Quandry

The local high school has banned peanuts, peanut products, and tree nuts (a whole different question) due to a student with hyper allergies.

I speak here as a parent of a child with hyper allergies, a child that attended the same school without such Big Brother intervention.  In fact, the school administration wouldn't let him keep emergency medication at hand -- had to keep it in the school nurse office.

How far do you interfere with the actions of the majority to smooth the way for a single individual?  I don't think they are doing that student a favor.  That kid is going to have to live in a world with peanuts in it.  Staying alive is going to be his/her problem, not the world's.  Example -- she/he will never dare take an airplane.  Peanuts.  Can't enter a grocery store.  Peanuts.  On and on, ad infinitum.

I dunno.  Looks like a public "feel-good" exercise rather than adaptation to a handicap.

My main gripe with Gonzales

(And with the rest of the damned administration)

He has tainted the title of conservative.  Time was, "conservative" meant strict adherence to the Constitution, minimum government intervention in the affairs of citizens, a small central government, balanced budgets, and near-isolationist international policies.  The neo-cons seem to believe in none of these.