Yesterday was a beautiful day here. The temperature was in the low sixties, but there wasn’t a cloud in the sky, no wind – just perfect. So perfect that I wound up sitting outside until way past my bedtime with a fire going. Being outside in the sun (and later star and moon) shine really makes me appreciate sitting here in my windowless coffin of an office. Yeah. Screw that fresh air and sunshine shit.

Today is supposed to be even warmer – up into the 70s, but of course they’re predicting rain for the early evening. Hopefully I’ll beat it home and at least get the dogs out for a while.

So, Max Baucus isn’t running in 2014. What a shame – he’ll be missed (by the insurance industry, the NRA, Wall Street, etc.). Sounds like Brian Schweitzer could be running to take his place, which sounds good to me, ‘cuz I always liked him. He may not be perfect, but, hey no commie pinko liberal is gonna win in Montana.

So, what is it with these Republican idiots that think the Boston Bomber dude should be hauled off to Gitmo without a trial or any rights? I mean, fer chrissakes, not only did this happen in the US of A (where we have that whole Constitution thing that actually consists of more than the part that says you’re allowed to own machine guns and whatever other weapons you want), but the kid is a US Citizen.

I mean, do we really want to become a place where they can just take you off the street and make you disappear for any reason they decide they want to? I mean, we kinda already are, but at least it isn’t “legal.” I will grudgingly give credit to Rand Paul on this one.

What if they just plain happen to be wrong about somebody. Like, say the Elvis impersonator who, whatever else he is, is apparently NOT the ricin letter guy. What if Li’l Lindsey Graham got his way with this guy and they renditioned him to some hole in the ground somewhere so Lindsey could break out the whips and chains on him?

Of course the non-ricin guy has a regular American-sounding name, so I guess you’d have to treat him fairly.

Big breakthrough in the world of science. A new study shows – are you ready for this? – that chocolate may trigger acne. Gosh, that’s astonishing. Not like I could have told them that when I was, like 13.

Oh well, I suppose I’d better get back to work.