Dim

The dimmest of mornings ends a night rarely still. Rain and more rain drips and drums, and the gray day arrives un-greeted by any sound of birds-- not even the harsh caws of crows. Wet has stripped the mulberry of most of its remaining yellow leaves which now lie strewn across the sodden lawn. Once the sun returns it will reach my window almost unfiltered each afternoon. I suddenly realize that little more than a week remains until the winter solstice. Time flies when you're having weather.

( Sunday Verse )

Asses were repeatedly hit by the door on their way out

The 109th Congress died yesterday, little more than a month after being taken out back and shot in the head. Its survivors include two reactionary Supreme Court Justices, a middle eastern quagmire, a President still as bone-headed as ever, and a dismal record of scandal and corruption. The recently aborted fetuses of nine appropriations bills required to fund government agencies were found among its belongings. The Congress was pre-deceased by Augusto Pinochet, Jeanne Kirkpatrick and Terri Schiavo. Services will be held by the complicitous media, and interment will be in a pit filled with Santorum.