Well the US let me in. i was cautious coming in on the visa-waiver program to vacation with my family while still an applicant immigrant. As my internet access is mostly from a truck parked in western Maine near a store with an insecure router here's a miscellany:

1. Mick Stockinger and Ann Coulter have this in common - they misspell words with 3rd conjugation latin roots such as "repellant" and "tendancy." What would Shakespeare say? He'd say "It only matters to a grammar nazi. What counts is intelligibility and accuracy" so I'm a pedant, but there it is.

2. Hallelujah that the immigration balloon has gone down in flames.It was an almost pure fight between the political establishment and MSM versus talk radio and the conservative blogosphere. Who won is almost as significant as what won.

3. Maine loons are striking striped waterfowl with black eyes in black heads - ie eerily eyeless.

4. I'm reading about the car bombs in London today. They're in streets I walk regularly. My anger is aimed mostly at the UK government for appeasing Islam. The first act of a sane government would be to halt the spread of this inherently dangerous philosophy within the UK.