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Not much today. Marie and the kids are going to Frankenmuth, Michigan, for the annual Bavarian Music Fest. I typically join them, but I'm staying home this year. I'm simply tired. It's been a brutal past couple of weeks, and with school year activities revving back up, I don't see things getting better. I'm going to use the day to get caught up at the office, do some gardening, get extra sleep, and read (a novelty pursuit these days).

The picture above comes from my garden. I planted four grape vines in 2010. Two of them produced very well this year, another vine gave me about ten grapes, and another vine produced nothing. They're different types, but they're planted in the same kind of soil and all meant for northern climates. I knew grapes could be picky, but I didn't realize they'd have such extremes.

Received in an email: Boozing bears break into log cabin for party and down 100 cans of beer.

I had just finished this post, when I ran across this blog post at Cafe Hayek. In one paragraph, the writer summarizes why, if people reflected on it, everyone should realize the national political process is a complete sham. If you hold faith in politics, ponder these words. He wrote them in response to President Obama's request last week that, despite people's cynicism in politics, they "believe." The writer responds:

Believe in what? Believe in the miraculous power of power? Believe that a handful of telegenic and charismatic individuals will sacrifice their personal welfare to work as servants for millions of strangers simply because those strangers are citizens of the same political entity as are the telegenic and charismatic individuals who furiously fight each other for the privilege of sacrificing their personal welfare to work as servants for millions of strangers? Believe that a handful of telegenic and charismatic individuals ”“ who do not know you personally ”“ can spend your money and regulate your behavior better than you can spend your own money and regulate your own behavior? Or believe that if a majority of your fellow citizens vote to give power to a handful of telegenic and charismatic individuals, then it's moral and right and proper and economically sensible for that handful of telegenic and charismatic individuals to take money and autonomy from some politically impotent people in order to enrich you and other people less politically impotent than are those whose money is taken and whose freedom of action is constrained?

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