Free In Idaho!

The quest for Lord Stanley’s Cup begins.  We’ve got the Avalanche vs the Wild on the tube…

don’t bug me, I’m busy.

Tam has a great essay on the Seventeenth Amendment this morning.  Bet most of us need to be reminded of these things more often.  Wish more folks would get a clue… sigh.

Understand this first: I’m not one of those people who think the Constitution is divinely inspired and the perfect governmental document. However, for setting up a limited federal government with strictly enumerated powers rigidly separated among different branches that acted as brakes on each other, it’s really pretty clever. There was a lot of thought put into a careful system of counterweights and oversights, and if you change one bit of it, you can throw something completely unexpected out of kilter. And boy howdy, did the Seventeenth Amendment ever do that in spades.

Get on over to the Porch and see what she has to say.  She’s a good teacher.  You’ll be glad you did.

JayG at MArooned tagged me with this latest meme that is making the rounds.  I’m not usually one for these, but I’ll play this one in order to be neighborly.  It goes like this

1. Write your own six word memoire.

2. Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you want.

3. Link to the person that tagged you in your post and to the original post if possible so we can track it as it travels across the blogosphere.

4. Tag at least five more blogs with links.

5. Leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play….

My own six word memoire, eh?  For me, it has to be my blog title

Free in Idaho, such a gift

and for a photo you all haven’t seen yet, how about this one

I’ll pass on passing it along though.  Like chain letters and MLM schemes, memes quickly suck the well dry, especially when you tag five more each time.