[Personal]

New Address: The Kremlin.

We closed on our house yesterday afternoon, signing our name to the 927 forms no one understands. (There is a new one called something like "Patriot Act Disclosure Form," which allows the Feds to pore through your personal records and scrutinize your dealings, presumably to see if they can track expenditures that might indicate you're hiding Osama in your basement--or more likely, given the rank incompetence of this administration, to see if you name is "Muhammad." I actually asked what would happen if I didn't sign the form, a question the title woman had never considered. But she assured me it was all right--the Feds actually already had the information, this form was just my acknowledgement that I understood that.) Today we get the keys.

We now live in the 97214 ZIP code--in Portland, wonky types refer to this as "The Kremlin" due to its thick concentration of leftists. Muster an anti-war rally, and half the people will be from the 214. This I regard as auspicious. We don't actually move in until next Saturday, however, so for a few more days Hog HQ remains in (only marginally less lefty) Northeast Portland.

A new house and an indictment in the White House? Shaping up to be a decent day.