Retrospective

(Warning -- risk of offense ahead)

I have to agree with starcat_jewel that the 9/11 National Day of Pathos (Bathos?) has started to outwear its welcome.  And moved into the realm of political manipulation.

Even private mourning should have an end.  Wife's parents recently attended the ceremony of placing a stone on the grave of an old friend, Jewish custom, a year after burial.  That serves as a public end of mourning, the point at which the living should move on with life.

Caught a snip of some politician somewhere yammering on about enemies who will stop at nothing in their rage to hurt us, and how we will stop at nothing in our fight against them.  That's only partially paraphrased -- the "stop at nothing" is verbatim. 

"Stop at nothing" gives us Abu Ghraib.  History says "stop at nothing" gives us  the SS executing a hundred hostages for each Wehrmacht soldier killed by the Resistance...

Thursday roadkill report

Two squashed squirrels spreading their giblets along the pavement, one almost-intact skunk near the first precast concrete plant.

Breezy and cool this morning, clear sunshine with temperature about 60 F, but nowhere near as windy as yesterday.  Leaf by leaf autumn advances, no particular change you can put your finger on but the green fades a little each day and you wake up one frosty morning and the burning-bush out back is scarlet...

15.29 miles, 1:05:24

Minor wierdness observed

Howcome Live Journal inserted a rash of old RSS feed posts in the midst of my friends page?

(No, I don't really need to know the entrails...)