No red tide in Tuckahoe -- unless you count the sauce we made. Yes, Saturday meatballs, knowing we wouldn't be home Sunday. Oddly enough, I did get the sneezes. Sympathy snot?

Just when I was really starting to enjoy the political mud-fight arising from New Orleans, along comes the scheduled Supreme Court confirmation hearings and now another vacancy. So it's going to be a full week of news... or mud-fights, at least.

I look forward to further phone-interviews with the All-Seeing Vin-Man, who seems to have a good handle on all these events. Perhaps I will also solicit the views of Don Vito -- I'm sure the Postmaster has a hand in all this, and the truth will out. WWVS?