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(Washington Post) The Bush administration asked a judge to suspend his order halting federal permits for mountaintop coal mining, saying it "casts a tremendous cloud of uncertainty" over the industry's future in Appalachia.

some good news and some bad news

I am nettled to say that I was elected to the executive committee of the PTA, although happily one of the nominees for the one position where there was more than one person running was assigned to be my co-whatever my title is, and I can sit home and format stuff and not feel bad if I have to work through a meeting.

Our favorite pizza parlor, where they make the sauce for the chicken marsala from reduced stock, has opened a restaurant which serves wine, makes their salad dressing from scratch and takes plastic, walking distance from our house. Our company-entertaining problems are solved.

On the downside, HM tells us that her little 'friend' at school has been bullying her, and that it's making her sad to go to school. Her teacher has offered to move the little - dear - and I think I'm going to take her up on it. I should have realized there was going to be trouble with this kid when we came to pick her up to go to the museum and her mother told me to hit her if I thought I needed to...

Just yuck, is all.