I shall politicize no more, forever. It's giving people too much agita. As Don Vito once said, probably at an inappropriate moment: "Don't shit where you eat." Another entry in the Disputations of Vito, a document that will one day reside in the canon alongside the speeches of Cicero.

Cookie made it off to school this morning with any tears (unless you count those of Alane, who seems to think our Bart Simpson has suddenly become a Dickensian waif being sent off to the factories of London). We eagerly await his after-action report.

Let's just hope he's not in his classroom right now quoting Don Vito.