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Clipped from spam this morning, I found this opening line for a story:

But after frolicking around the file system at a shell prompt for these past several weeks, freedom – with the baying of the hounds of Cupertino ever present – is not what I dreamt.

Did you get yours?

On yesterday’s Autumnal Equinox post, I got this eloquent and grateful comment. (Apparently I saved his life!)

Fall arrived two hours ago - that’s the Autumnal Equinox, when the length of the day has shortened to equal the length of the night. From here on, nights will be longer than days until next spring.

The US Constitution replaced the earlier and by then clearly failing Articles of Confederation from a decade earlier. Among many criticisms of those Articles was the inability of the states to succeed at paying their collective debts, primarily loans from foreign governments that had funded our independence. In the absence of any strong common (federal) government, the confederated states had failed to make proper payments on their loans. Foreign governments were threatening the equivalent of foreclosure.

We’re counting on you to beat the incumbent who seems hell-bent on destroying our way of life, but your candidate appears to need more hand-holding and coaching than he’s receiving. According to the various polls, this election isn’t gonna be a slam dunk and if you don’t make sure your candidate walks the walk and talks the talk, you’re gonna lose it.