Mosquitos and ticks in mid-April in Wisconsin surely foreshadow the coming apocalypse, which - if BushCo and the fervent faithful are to be believed - is a good thing.

These days every dead bird is a potential harbinger of West Nile virus… I liked it better when they were just gross dead things.

There’s a deep moral here, somehow escaping me. Musthave something to do with the sudden onset of the Dog Days of Spring that arrived in NY. You know the old rhyme?

In New York
Spring’s a bummer
First its Winter
The its Summer