Hail, Hail, the Gang's all Here

Seriously, Hail. Rain, thunder, and hail for about 5 minutes. Then the hail stopped, but we've having constant 1-second power outages, with the result that my computer has restarted itself 4 times in the last hour. I'm going to post this fast before it goes out again, but here's my column for today, which is all political and whatnot.

Oh, and I had an article in this new little local underground newspaper called the Perp, but the print copies are all gone, and it's only online in infernal PDF form. Still, you Shire folks can check it out here if you like.