Whoosh rattle

We tied a record high temperature for the date, lost a bunch of snow to the rain, and then felt the house shaking as we changed to a more-seasonal air mass overnight.  Today sunny, at least.  I'm reaching the point where I consider pumping up the tires on the mountain bike, since I'm obviously not gonna get to ski...

(With the bouncing around on temperatures, we're actually right at the average degree-days for the heating season to date.  Thing is, our deviation statistics are all bloody.)

Define "flexible"

 New border regulations in effect today, folks coming in to this great U S of A from Canada have to have a passport, or photo ID plus birth certificate or other stuff.  Many and various are the frothings at the mouths...

The Customs and Immigration people say that they are going to be "flexible" on this, at least for a while.  I wish (with a level of devout wishing that would do credit to a devout wishing person) that they weren't using "flexible" as a synonym for "arbitrary."

And in other political news, I just hung up on a "personal" call from John McCain.  Can't we just take them all out to the pond and dunk them?  The ones that sink aren't witches...