We woke to sun and about 3 inches of fresh snow. The early weather report predicted more snow today and clouds so we waited to see what would actually materialize.  So nice we decided to go ahead and do our grocery shopping. We could have waited till next week if we had to.

I keep wondering how idiotic the evangelical wingnuts can be and then another competitor for the first prize in the idiocy sweepstakes comes along. And then there is the parallel competition among government operatives. Kellyanne Conway so far leads a tight field with her notion that a border wall and a Just Say No campaign will do anything to fix the opioid crisis. How in hell a border wall will better a situation where the pills are readily available from licensed quacks who should be stripped of their right to practice medicine and thrown in jail for a very long stretch she doesn't explain. But then I doubt she truly understands the problem. And didn't we try Just Say No as a birth control method under Nancy Reagan? It didn't work then in that context and why anyone would think it will work now in this situation is absolutely beyond me.

Some years ago I was in history class which used Salem Possessed as a reading assignment. I remember on segment of the book fairly well where the authors mapped out the spatial relationships between the accused and their accusers. The two groups lived very separate lives and interacted very little--that is, the accusers really didn't know the people they accused very well at all. This leading piece at Axios reminded me of that. The most Republican districts have the fewest immigrants. If this were 325 years or so ago the Republican representatives from those districts might be accusing them of witchcraft instead of simply wanting to deport them.

I thought #45's equating not applauding his State of the Union speech with treason reflected his monumental ego and his poor little hurt feelings. However, Senator Tammy Duckworth responds with wonderful precision to "Cadet Bone Spurs."