Snow came!

Just enough to get me out of my travel obligations for the morning, which was fine with me. Cancelled that, rolled out late to start the shoveling — heavy stuff, but I wasn’t in a big hurry, so it was fine. Girls were out for about two and a half hours messing around in the snow, they couldn’t be happier. Now they’re tired and full of hot chocolate, just as they should be. Wish we could go tobogganing over at Albany Municipal Golf Course later on, but we’ve got dance class in the late afternoon. Well, maybe we can work it out anyway.
Made a great label for the new Christmas CD. Got my final addresses for the Christmas cards (lost my address book in the great crash of Labor Day).
I’m of very mixed feelings about all the sabre-rattling. I think the case is there to be made, but that the administration hasn’t bothered to make it. I think that you can’t threaten to go to war without being ready to go to war, so all the preparations in that direction certainly are necessary to show our resolve. But I’ve gotta say that the message from the administration, as filtered through the New York Post yesterday, was a little alarming: “WE’LL NUKE YOU”. That may not be the message that causes moderate Iraqis to join the fight against Hussein. On the other hand, it’s not ambiguous. And I’m a little sick of people who think this has all happened of a sudden, that Bush was handed a perfectly stable set of circumstances and mucked it up. There were eight years between Bushes, when we essentially acted as if none of this were happening.
That’s my political contribution for the day.