Yesterday blew. Literally. We didn’t get the heavy rain they had elsewhere in the Northeast, but we damn sure got the wind. Lots of folks without power around here, though we, fortunately, were spared. Good thing we didn’t get the rain, since, with the warm weather last week, all our snow is pretty much gone and things are pretty mooshy around here as it is. We have lots of tree bits down in the back yard, and I’m pretty sure I saw somebody fly by on a bicycle with a little dog in the front basket. Speaking of dogs, the receding snow at the park has left the chewed, rotting corpses of tennis balls strewn about, along with melting piles of dog crap. This is the ugly time of year up here. The trees have no leaves, and the nice, pretty snow is gone, exposing all the leftover road dirt.

Yesterday really rocked, too, if you live in Indonesia, where either a 7.0 or 6.4 earthquake (depending on who you listen to) hit, or if you live in Japan, which got hit by a 6.6. Indonesia, Japan, Chile, Haiti…. If one didn’t know better, one might think the Earth is starting to pull itself apart. And it’s not even 2012 yet.

Jim Bunning might be a crazy, demented old man to you, but he’s a hero back home in Kentucky. A regular injun killin’ Dan’l Boone. They gave him a hero’s reception (at $60 – $100 a head), where every Kentucky cracker cam out to sing his praises (except for Ferret Face MacConnell, of course, who is at once both intimidated and aroused by Bunning’s throbbing manliness).

“Jim Bunning has been right more than he’s been wrong,” said Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson, a Republican who thinks of Bunning as his mentor. “And history will show that he, more than anyone else, predicted some of the economic problems we’re having now and worked to try to prevent them.”

Really? Jim Bunning more than anyone else saw all this coming? The guy’s a sage! Just stay the hell off his lawn.

The Catholics and pro-lifers are at it again, and this time it’s health care reform their after. You’d think that people who profess to be “pro life” would want everybody to have health care, but in this case, um, well, I’ll be damned. Seems Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good have come out in support of reform. And so has the Catholic Health Association.

I like the fact that it’ll stay light an hour later now, but why do they have to fuck with Sunday? Why not spring the clocks ahead an hour on, I dunno, maybe three o’clock on Friday afternoon? And when it comes time to fall back, how about we do it on a Monday morning at about five? I realize that might screw a few people over, but it would work out pretty well for me, and that’s really what it’s all about, isn’t it?

Hard to believe it’s been a year already, but it’s Pi Day once again. I think I’ll spend the day drawing circles and then dividing their circumferences by their diameters.