We had rain in Western Pennsylvania, where Washington started the Seven Years War, which got the whole thing going. I'm maybe an hour away from the site of GWs first command. (And it's a great drive if you're ever out this way.)

I just sent off the last set of captions for the cartoon book a friend of mine and I do. Once again, I bless our glorious American libel laws. It takes real work in this country to libel somebody.

A couple of weeks ago, I had a piece in the Post-Gazette. Afterwards some nut accused me of comparing Snookie of Jersey Shore fame to Hitler. I didn't, of course. But even if I did, Snookie couldn't sue me. Well she could, this is the U.S.A. after all. But any judge would throw the case out of court.