Not much to write about this afternoon. It's a slow news day, and nothing's happened to really get my blood boiling that I haven't already blogged.

As for the year just passed: Sure, many terrible things happened and continue to happen (as The Onion so perfectly put it), but I prefer to think of 2006 as The Year America Began to Come to Its Senses.

So let's welcome the new year in hope, and ready to light a fire under those newly-empowered Democrats!

(And don't miss the Marx Brothers marathon on Turner Classic Movies, starting with Duck Soup at 7:15 CST.)