Not raining/snowing/sleeting

Sunrise.  Again.  Will wonders never cease?

Clear, light wind, air temperature 28 F for the newspaper walk.  Side yard almost free of snow.  Again.

Some minor degree of "civil liberty" interest in Augusta?  Must be a mistake:

new.bangordailynews.com/2011/04/06/politics/bill-seeks-real-id-law-rollback-in-maine/

Further adventures of . . .

A group of Republicans are taking up a collection to buy that mural from the Feds:

new.bangordailynews.com/2011/04/07/politics/aroostook-county-republicans-set-up-fund-to-buy-labor-mural/

Bet they wouldn't consider taking up a collection to balance the state's budget . . .

Reports of another earthquake offshore of Japan

As if Death needed a double*:

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42473172/ns/world_news-asiapacific/

*Obscure cinema references backwards-R us.