Mothers add more blankets to the bed.
Yellow lights in windows of the junior high mean that nightschool is back in session, tired grownups sitting in the plastic desks learning to bisect the hypotenuse, how to say spreadsheet in Japanese. Tonight, all over Washington, senators in mirrors will practice until they are as fluent saying homosexual as they already are at saying Mr. President and first strike option . Sometimes we think the truth is the worst thing that could happen but the truth is not the worst thing that could happen.