D.C. Vacationers are back at home and work.
Kids are again in school.
American Labor Day, which unlike European socialist May Days celebrates not hope and hate but harvest and bounty, is behind us for another year. Shortening days and chillier nights are prompting ducks and geese to prepare for their southward migration. The New Year 10-day celebration of Rosh Hashanah will be underway in two weeks for Jews throughout the world, with sunset on September 26 bringing Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Days later, on October 1, America s Federal Government begins its new fiscal year, following weeks of a bureaucratic spending orgy to make sure not a penny of any agency s budget went unused and could be used to justify less allocation in future years. So while many who worship God are praying, fasting, and purifying their souls, others who worship Government are preying, pulling fast ones, and putrefying their agencies.