Every network
news program, every local station news team, and every print journalist has
assembled and published in some form the inevitable list of something for year’s
end.
I can think
back over the year and list memorable bowls of soup, best walks with the dog,
darkest black humor political cartoon, best steak, best seafood, and many other
items. I’ll spare anyone who might read
this.
By far, the
weather extremes that we experienced were the worst of the year. 27-28 April’s tornados were the worst event
and “absolute low point” for the year, locally.
Other regions of the nation may vary as to date and event. Weather, however, and its direct
consequences, takes the bottom rung.
Fortunately,
we survived the tornados with minimal discomfort, minimal inconvenience, and no
personal harm. That ranks high in any
list I can compose.
The high mark
for the year is that Gloria and I remain happily, joyfully passionately in love
and solidly married. We began 2011 in
that condition and will begin 2012 in the same state.
Perhaps the
best thing about the year’s end is that we have only 10 months of political
campaigning left before the next Presidential election. The year has been awash with the idiocy of
Palin, Bachman, Perry, Gingrich, and Paul.
Each one has been trying to outplay the others at the social
conservative/religious mania component of the campaign. The evangelicals/GOP/teavangelists are all
trying to Christianize the nation and remove any citizens who won’t kiss someone’s
cross, bible, or segregation/deportation plan.
The hope for
2012 is the removal of Grover Norquist (doomed to abjectivity by his very name)
from his control of the GOP/teavangelists.
Pho for
dinner tonight.
The day is
clear, chilly, and will cool down markedly tonight.
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