We're drowning here in central and southern Iowa with more on the way. Last year at this time I had 3,000 miles on the bike. This year only 750 or so. You're welcome to everything for the next month or so. Heck, the farmers can't even get out and plant yet.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.