Talking about the Weather

Two balmy days have banished our archipelagos of snow. Only very low and shaded spots sport it now. Thur. & Fri were the first days warm enough to take the Christmas lights down. Skis, shovels, and ice cracker tools are stashed anticipating spring, but according to the weather folks, nix this weekend.

Frankly, I ought to be too embarrassed to bring it up; the body politic has far greater worries. Somebody—the media or us, who knows?—is fixated on a lost Malaysian Airlines plane, and we have put $2.5 million into the search even though there doesn't seem to be a single American aboard.

Somebody wrote my political mailbox encouraging me to vote and donate to keep the NRA from intimidating Democratic senators. Dems and Republicans alike, they are so concerned about money for reelection campaigns they are incapable of doing what their constituents' want, which effectively means democracy is dead in this country.

Americans, critical or not, have a lot more to talk about than the weather.