[Jack Moroney (RIP)]

You all have to understand every State in the Union has to produce something of "value". Vermont produces the village idiot. I chose to live here not because of the people or the politics but because of the woods and the critters. When I first got here I took on all comers, but the editors of the local papers would change what I submitted and got offended when I pointed out that their op-ed pieces were a direct reflection of their consistent malady of cerebral-rectal inversion. Since then I have opted to stay happily secluded in my base camp, venturing forth only for minor supplies (all major supplies are procured from Hanscom AFB during a monthly sojourn back to the US) and to attend various minor functions. I always wear my black baseball cap with Special Forces emblazoned as a recon-by-fire technique but most time folks just look at it, drop their gaze, and wander off muttering to themselves. I actually do enjoy it here, the politics are amusing, and the native "woodchucks" , as they proudly call themselves, are a decent lot however some of the more "rabid chucks" are very provincal, ill informed, and have given the term liberal an entirely new twist.