Hail Hail, the gangs all here

Well, really no one is here but it made a good title. Last night I saw sitting watching the TV and the lightning flashing outside when I heard a series of rattles and thumps and realized that hail was falling on my house. And on my car. I quickly donned a jacket and ran outside to move my vehicle to some shelter under the spreading boughs of a mighty oak and ran back to the house. Along the way I picked up the whole ravening dog pack which was uniformly unhappy about thunder, lightning, and ice falling from the sky. They came in with me. There was much rejoicing (except among the cats). I gathered some of the hail and took a picture.

It isn't huge golf ball sized hail but it was interesting.

On a different topic, 3score did a very interesting bit of research into the whole domestic spying/wiretapping thing. Go and read and join the conversation.
There is some interesting conversation going on about the Hamas election victory over at United We Lay.
And theZombieslayer is making an impassioned plea for people to spank their unruly children.

Hey, my post may not be substantive, but I can at least refer you to something good.