Finally, 2 days after the National Weather Service began scaring New Yorkers with predictions of a snowy Armageddon (“…as much as four inches … before it roars out of town with wind gusts of 40 mph“), Manhattan is enjoying a snowstorm. Pray God He sends enough of the stuff to bury the rats, the garbage and the politicians. The beauty outside my window recalls the storm that hit Boston around this time in 1776 — but it was rain and heavy wind, not snow. The British Army had infested Beantown almost a year earlier; rebels against the Empire had chased … Continue reading Defeating Despotism