Punxsutawney

02.03.2005 - 4:15 p.m.

Yesterday was Groundhog Day and the State of the Union Address.

As Air America Radio pointed out, it is an ironic juxtaposition:
one involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to a creature of little intelligence for prognostication and the other involves a groundhog.

out to pasture - to the barn raising