I'm beginning to have second thoughts about shopping at places like Goodwill. My income has gotten much better and I don't need to find bargains anymore. I've begun to wonder whether I am taking an item that a lower-income person might need or enjoy. They can't afford to shop elsewhere, but I can. We're told that the money goes to services, etc for the poor, but I now believe that I shouldn't buy toys, clothes, shoes from Goodwill because I might be taking something a poorer person needs more than me. What if some low-income mom with her last $20 walked into that store to get a birthday gift for her son, but I just walked out with what she could have really used? I could have bought it elsewhere, even the internet. Am I wrong?

All bleeding stops eventually.

-Doc Cochran, Deadwood

I have that same, same one, still on duty in my bedroom. The big, red digits are so easy to read in the dark, but not so bright as to keep me awake. I hope it outlives me, I don't want to try and replace this one I've had since Clinton's first term.

It's roughly x2 and 3 zeroes. My cat can do it.

Very quickly, I see supporters of the losing side placing hoarded and stolen signs from the winning side where spite-fines will accrue for them. It's always the unintended consequences that bite these good ideas on the ass.