IF YOU HAVEN’T READ THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SINCE YOU WERE IN SIXTH GRADE, WHY NOT READ IT TODAY?:  Today’s a holiday for many of you.  It’s a short document.  And there’s no time like the present.

Here’s my favorite clause in Jefferson’s litany of offenses by the king:  “He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.”  I love that word “swarms.”