Light snow

Winter continues.  This batch isn't supposed to amount to anything serious, but tonight into tomorrow forecasts maybe 6".  This would be when the nature center has a field-trip scheduled up-river to a national wildlife refuge, using one of those notorious 15-passenger vans for the group...

No Spitzer-related ribaldry today.  Move along.  This is not the blog you're looking for...

Annoying Priorities (politics again)

Why the hell are all those congress-weasels squabbling over whether to grant immunity to telecoms that comply with illegal requests from the government?  Why not act to stop the illegal requests, and maybe to prosecute the flunkies who make them?  Or at least terminate their employment, perhaps with extreme prejudice?

Almost looks, to these aged and cynical eyes, as if certain elected bodies are more interested in bashing Verizon and ATT than in protecting the Constitution and their citizens...