By the way, how are sales of this John Hiatt CD doing in New York? I figure they oughta be booming. It is, after all, a darn fine CD. Oh, yeah - and topical. (Yeah, I know - it's a link for Amazon in Canada, but I figger all you Yanquis oughta be able to figure it out, eh?)

It's just a dry cleaning establishment. No cracks about Eliot Spitzer to go with it. Heck no.

And, once again, serendipity works its magic. Yep, lillies. Which, it seems to me, are a fairly common choice at funerals. Like the one that will soon be held for Eliot Spitzer's political career. Gees, what a dolt.

However, on a more celebratory note, there's this story. The writer emphasizes the victory of a Democrat in a once solidly Republican land, but that's missing the point. The guy's a physicist! A scientist! He's not a religious crackhead spouting crap about the world being created in seven days and, for that matter, that it's flat! He's intelligent! He's actually aware of Galileo, Newton, and Darwin! In fact, he's probably aware of Einstein, Feynman, Weinberg, Glashow and Maynard Smith. Among others. He actually lives in the 21st century. Unlike his President.