August is a Hum of Crickets

Back from the long wander around the Eastern Half of the United States and wondering where I'll be a month from today:

1) New York?
2) Chicago?
3) San Francisco?

Weird. It runs the whole country again. It's all I think about pretty much, besides ol' Snape and the Chicago Cubs. Oh my Cubs, they looked beautiful today - helped by Garrett Atkins and whoever was playing first for the Rockies - Helton or Baker?

But Lilly looked great again today, his expiration date is much later than I thought it would be - he might be the reason the Cubs are still in on it.

Boston was good - except for getting lost about twice a waking hour and the surprising heat. Swimming in Walden Pond was a definite highlight, as was looking out over the Atlantic and thinking about the 19th century.

Good article this week, or was it last? in the New Yorker about Bush's prisons - I think we're going to need a truth commission after this regime leaves much like the one in South Africa. We should probably learn what's been done in our name. I really have become more convinced over the last few weeks that this will actually be necessary.