Writer's Almanac

It is always a good day, if I can finish my work early enough to listen to "The Writers Almanac."

National Public Radio's web site will let you subscribe to it by e-mail. Thereafter, it is in your inbox, waiting for you to get home each day, if you happen to miss the show on the radio.

When I get home, eventually I go to my computer and check e-mail. The message with the Writers Almanac is there. I see it, then go on to do the work that I've brought home with me. Later, when I finish my work, I return to my in-box to see what this saved bit of mail will give me this particular evening.

Tonight, it reminded me that people can be great regardless of their governments. Yet I wonder whether there is a point when dissent is wasted breath. Perhaps this is only when there is no other ear for sanity, and intelligent commentary only serves to further annoy the insane.