http://llamabutchers.mu.nu/archives/129539.php I'm back in harness, as you can tell. I was down yesterday with a bug, as were the Missus and the seven year old. Taking it easy, I started rereading one of my favorite books - Glenn Tucker's High Tide... en-us http://mwguide.blogspot.com/2005/10/sky-is-falling.html Can't get over those Miers blues? Dubya hasn't been quite the fiscal conservative you'd hoped he would be? Maybe you were rooting for the (ptooey) Astros, the fall weather's got you down, you had leftover barley soup for lunch, the dog ate your homew... http://ambientirony.mu.nu/archives/2005/10/who_put_salt_in.php Peggy Noonan frets that the world, or at least America, is handbasketly hellbound:I think there is an unspoken subtext in our national political culture right now. In fact I think it's a subtext to our society. I think that a...