President Obama plans on traveling to and speaking at a memorial service in Tuscon tomorrow. Does that seem like a good idea? I mean, I know there’s the Secret Service and all that, but still. As long as Joe from Tempe is still on the loose, I think I’d stay away from Arizona – especially if I was black, Mexican, or a mythical liberal. Of course, I don’t like the heat, so I’d stay away from there anyway. Unless it would get me out of going back to work today.

Down there in Atlanta, though, I reckon they wouldn’t mind some of the Arizona desert weather. It’s difficult not to chuckle when I read something like this

Heavy snow is expected to begin falling in the Atlanta area tonight, possibly reaching three to five inches….

But of course they just don’t have the equipment or expertise to deal with snow and ice down there. For one thing, it takes money – in the form of tax dollars. And we know how much people hate taxes.

Here, after getting, oh, I dunno, maybe five inches or so through noon yesterday, the snow stopped, and I was able to scrape the driveway down. More snow this afternoon, though, and it’s supposed to snow all week long. Nothing major. A few inches here, a few inches there. More where I live, I’m sure. If things stay true to form, it should be kind of shitty tonight, because it’s garbage night. And the weather always sucks on garbage night.