The local crime wave continued today. I went into work and noticed that the front window of the St. Vincent de Paul thrift shop, next door to our store and been totally smashed out. The lady who was surveying the damage said that they hadn't had time yet to see what was gone. Hooterville has crime problems, that's for sure. Citizens of Hooterville are about 20% more likely to be the victims of murder than the national average. Fortunately, most of the murders are gangsters and dopers killing one another. Regretfully, domestic violence is probably the second highest category. Random killings are exceedingly rare. In the matter of property crimes things are even worse. We rank high in car thefts, courtesy of our proximity to the Mexican border. Businesses along the I-19 freeway that leads to the border are especially prone to be car theft hot spots. Mexican police officials have been found to be driving cars stolen from the United States. There seems to be little disincentive for thieves to steal cars and hot foot it to the border. We have much higher than average burglaries and other thefts of property, largely due to the high concentration of drug addicts who plague us. Other than that, it is a pretty good place to live. On to the inauguration. I wasn't there, nor would I have attended given the chance. I admire those who cared enough to brave the crowds to be a part of history, but I'm not constituted that way. I TIVO'd the whole deal and pretended that I had a private reserved, heated box. President Obama positively exudes a contagious confidence and a determination to fix what ails us. Let us hope that the insufferable Reid and Pelosi, the twin masters of politics as usual, catch his enthusiasm for doing what is right, rather than what is expedient. Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky