New Shoes in the Rain

It's the Monday before Christmas, so if you're not ready yet, well, your time is becoming limited! I want to offer a line of thought that I found clarified some things for me.  I somehow thought that politicians are driven, ruthless individuals who are looking to win at all costs and often don't care who gets in the way of a given objective. It turns out that this is not correct. I have two recent examples, both United States Senators, members of what has long been called "the world's most deliberative body."  I will not name names, but I will help to identify who each of the examples might be. The first one is a Senator from the state of Arkansas who has been outspoken in his opposition of the current Presidential administration.  He apparently held up the nominations of a substantial number of nominees for United States Attorney positions in a variety of locations.  He was apparently unwilling to disclose the reason for his objection to their nominations pro

How's your holiday shopping coming along?  That well?  I have to admit, I'm a little envious! I kid, ours is going pretty well.  It starts kinda early because, well, we have to.  Our daughter and her family live in the Denver suburbs, so shipping comes into play. And we all know that there's LOTS of stuff being shipped this year, whether by individuals and families, merchants big and small, or the usual online sellers of just about everything! We got our box together for the Colorado branch of the family along about Thanksgiving, and I took it to an area post office that weekend to process it (using the automated kiosk, which I prefer to the indifferent staff at the counter most of the time) and to potentially ship it, depending on whether it would fit into the package receptacle. Weighed and measured it, accepted the weight and was stunned to see the two options I was presented for shipping this package (which, incidentally, only weighed 3.5 pounds).  Neither was inexpensi