I’ll be doing some blog improvements over the New Year’s break and will be back with regular posts again next week.
Cheers!

I go for weeks without reading The Writer’s Almanac. More often than not when I check back in, the perfect poem is just waiting. This is by Peter Pereira, from “What’s Written on the Body.”

clipped from writersalmanac.publicradio.org

Not so much the desire
for owning things
as the inability to choose
between hunter or emerald
green, to buy
just [...]

Totally OT post.
It poured rain in Minneapolis today.
Later, of course, as the day reverted to “winter,” (our Moose are dying off in this state, and snowfalls aren’t what they used to be here) it made for ideal driving conditions.
So icy, in fact, that the light rail to and from the airport couldn’t run.

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Could a bailout to GM and Chrysler have prevented near certain failure of those companies by month’s end?
Now a moot point, along with questions such as, “Who’s to blame for the industry’s current state?”
A group of Republican senators decided that it was more important to nix the whole deal over whether GM’s unionized workers take [...]