Darkness fell hours ago. The kids are in bed, tired from a day of playing in the fresh-fallen snow. They should have been in school, but the school, like most everything, was shuttered.  You reflect on the irony of how the "education" they're supposed to be getting is...

'Twas the Week Before Christmas   ’Twas the week before Christmas, and all through the town,Not a merchant was open; they’d all been locked down. Of course, in the city, just miles away,The big box stores took all their profits today. “’Tis ScIeNce!” the man at...