It's miserable just about everywhere

My friend Bruce sent me a picture-perfect photo (is that redundant is that redundant is that … ) to remind me that almost everyone in the contiguous United States has experienced some sort of crappy weather this week. I don’t know if you consider a snow as crappy. I don’t know that much about what North Texas has been experiencing but surely the record-busting snow hitting D.C. this week got to the crappy stage.

Here along the Texas coast we have just been receiving rain, rain and more rain. Snow is forecast in our “suburban” counties tonight. That’s kind of joke, but it’s not. Just a couple hours north may be receiving five inches of snow overnight. Once again I have to remind people who think it’s no big deal that as far down in the “lower 48” as we live, it will sometime go years without snow and when it does, some of that “white stuff,” as the TV people call it, rarely sticks. For some reason I always think about cocaine when I hear the words “white stuff.” I don’t know why.

This type of weather inevitably leads to the right-wing’s assertion that global warming doesn’t exist. I won’t bite. Needless to say, if you have been reading about global warming through the years — yeah 25 years ago I didn’t believe it either — you will find convincing scientific evidence that Michael Jackson died a white woman. That  has nothing to do with global warming, of course. But neither does one snow storm make the argument for or against global warming more cogent.

The best thing to do when the weather is cold and snowy or raining is to make something nice and steaming to eat, like buzzard a’ la king or possum under glass. Oh sorry, that was for cold days in Bug Tussle, of the Beverly Hillbillies fame.

Seriously, make some chili or some stew. Wiggle your ears until they’re blue. Drink a toddy or some tea. Kick a ball with your knee. Go stir crazy. Watch some movies. Or better yet, make rhymes out of everything you say. See how long ’til they put you away.