Hello everyone. Did you miss me? I enjoyed my mini-vacation. It was refreshing and so nice to be “unplugged” for a few days. Of course, that meant I had roughly 30 billion e-mail messages when I returned. I’m sorting through them now.

I haven’t read through the papers or checked any other blogs for the past four days, so I feel a bit out of the loop at the moment. I did happen to see the “Another View” letter to the editor in Sunday’s paper (the heading was the misnomer of the year since it’s not “another view” but exactly the same view as the paper’s) and today’s “Word on the Street” (which was right on point).

While I’m catching up, feel free to use this as another open thread to talk about whatever you wish.