I’ve gotta be honest: I do not trust people who say they have to be honest with me.

“I’ve gotta be honest,” President Barack Obama said today about political gridlock and inertia.

“I’ll be honest with you,” WPTZ meteorologist Tom Messner said today about the question marks in tomorrow’s weather forecast.

“You know, to be honest with you,” Sen. Lindsay Graham said today about Libyan opposition fighters who may have al Qaeda ties.

That little collection took about a minute to compile. Honest.

A friend just wrote, Out the upstairs bedroom window I can see tiny green buds at the tips of all the tree branches. A lovely sign of a lovely, hopeful day to come. A good sign.

The frangipani is beginning to bloom in the Keys.

24° here in North Puffin this morning. It was supposed to be partly sunny all morning then cloud over with a 40% chance of snow showers. The clouds are already here. We had snow on the first day of Spring. And the second…

Where’s that @#$%^ Punxsutawney Phil?

If gas-by-the-oline costs $3.38-3.40 per gallon in Kingston, NJ, how can it possibly cost $3.83 just a couple of miles down the road across the Princeton line?

I don’t much like condiments in the upside down squeeze bottles. It’s not because the squeeze bottles are more expensive, although they are. It’s not because it’s harder to get the last drops out of the squeeze bottles, although it is. It’s because pooping the mayo out of a squeeze bottle looks so much like a dog squatting in the park.

White poop, but poop nonetheless.