On 1/31/06, joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> A friend writes:
>
> This year, both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union address
> occur on the same day.
>
> As Air America Radio pointed out, "It is an ironic juxtaposition
> of events: one involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to a
> creature of little intelligence for prognostication, while the
> other involves a groundhog."
>
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