Peace Like A River


It was a wide river, mistakable for a lake or even an ocean unless you'd been wading and knew its current. Somehow I'd crossed it... Now I saw the stream regrouped below, flowing on through what might've been vineyards, pastures, orhards... It flowed between and alongside the rivers of people; from here it was no more than a silver wire winding toward the city. - Leif Enger, Peace Like A River

Wednesday, January 28, 2004

Those crazy, nutty weather forecasters. First they forecast a deep freeze, then more moderate temps, and now back to the deep freeze, and indeed, that's what we have. Temps will be low for the next few days. And to the NW of us, up into ND and into Canada, they are really cold. Lows from 20 to 40 below. The northern part of MN had upwards of 20 inches of snow or more.

And of course, this morning I overhear on the radio top of the hour news, more bad winter weather on the East Coast, New York had 8 inches of snow. Bah. How did that Sinatra song go? "If it doesn't happen here/It doesn't happen anywhere/It's only you/New York, New York"

Kerry won New Hampshire last night. What a fish. This is the guy the Dems want to pin their hopes on? I think Dean is a nut, and way too dangerous to be President. He's said more than enough crazy things to disqualify him, to show himself a nonserious guy. But, the two things the dumb media have been bashing him on are the two things I kinda liked about him. One was the "I have a scream" address in Iowa after the caucuses there. I kinda liked that, he was just trying to fire up the troops, he was animated, not the dull stiff like Kerry is. I didn't think he was "mad and out of control." Second thing, they say he was "angry" and "abused" this one guy at a rally that stood up and said he should just talk nice about the other candidates. And Dean just said "you've had your say" etc... What was wrong with that? That guy was a Republican and had no business lecturing Dean at one of his rallies about can't-we-just-all-get-along here. Dean was well within his rights to tell the guy to get lost, and he did so in a firm, but not angry way. So, the media harps on things like this, and not on things like Dean's comment that we're not safer now that Saddam Hussein has been captured, or that Bush may have known about 9/11 before it happened. Bah.

There's a car that parks near where I do in the ramp, and it parks up against the outside wall, and there is some kind of exhaust vent on that wall, and it always looks like that car has been left running.

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