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Happy 2012!

Imagine living long enough to see not only years beginning with “2” but 2000 years counted in the tens. Who’d have thunk it?

Sounds like a war is going on out there. Cassie, cowering under my feet just now, is so terrorized she won’t go back to bed. So it looks like we’ll be up until people stop shooting off their guns and fireworks.

Our fruitcake state legislators decided the decades-old ban on fireworks offended every red-blooded American’s liberty, and so they passed a law nullifying the socialistic ban. The cities, whose fire departments and EMTs were already overworked enough on New Year’s and the Fourth of July, responded by enacting local bans, which the idiot legislature was persuaded to allow despite the new spirit of freedom.

The result is that the City of Phoenix is forced to allow the sale of dangerous fireworks, but the people who live here are not allowed to use them.

Confused yet?

That’s right. You can buy fireworks that will blow your hand away and set fire to the neighbor’s roof, but you can’t set them off.

As you can imagine, that last detail is honored about as religiously as the ban on using fireplaces they announced on Christmas Day.