Pending everything

Air temperature 38 F, wind south about 3 mph, cloudy. Line of rain showing way up at the crown of Maine and off into Quebec, not supposed to hit here until after dark. Hope either Michigan or Ohio State loses today -- we don't need a second hate match for the national championship.

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Those tax documents remind us that it is all a shell game.

Cattle die, kinsmen die . . .

Ambulance, fire truck, and FD command car at a house just down the street, all arrived without sirens.

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And a happy arbitrary New Year to all and sundry, at the equally arbitrary GMT midnight.

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Do the deaths balance, one instrument of oppression and one instrument of liberation?