So I get home to learn Gerald Ford and Saddam Hussein are still dead. George Bush has a new plan to end the war, this time by expanding it. Yawn. The more things change … . My cat is still alive, and as far as I can figure, so are most of my friends and family members — at least the ones who were alive when I left. So it’s a happy homecoming, attenuated only by the fact that I have my first full work week ahead of me in more than a month.
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