A Voice in the Wilderness In Defense of "Mere Conservatism"

Shake-and-Bake

Although I was fast asleep, with visions of Newt Gingrich as Commander-in-Chief dancing in my head, I found out this morning that there was an earthquake not far from my home in suburban Chicago during the night.

The 4.3 magnitude quake, centered 48 miles west of Chicago near the city of Sycamore, hit at 4 a.m. local time at a depth of about 3 miles, the USGS reported.

Geophysicist Amy Vaughn told the Chicago Sun Times the earthquake was "very widely felt" and the USGS phone lines were flooded with calls from residents asking about the shaking.

"It's mostly people who said 'we woke up and we thought we were going crazy,'" Vaughn said. "Mostly it’s rattling people awake."

Thankfully it appears nothing was hurt but a few persons' feelings.  I'd say that this is so "L.A." of Chicago, but there is a foot of snow on the ground so the analogy breaks down pretty quickly.