I digress: The weather news is not all bad. Weather Bug tells me the closest lightning strike is 2335 miles away. That would be, like, California as the crow flies. Of course, there has never been a crow that has flown from DC to California. So, what does that phrase even mean?

Back to today’s main story. Ilhan Omar gets sprayed with a (hopefully harmless) liquid at a town hall last night. This gives Donald the chance to try out his talent as a stand up comedian, saying ” She probably had herself sprayed, knowing her.”

This got them rolling in the aisles, I’m sure. But not long ago, Trump gave her another description. He called her a “fake sleazebag”. Now that requires as much parsing as  does “as the crow flies”.

If Washington and Los Angeles are 2335 miles apart as the crow flies, but the crow does not fly between them, have we learned anything about how far apart they are? If Ilhan Omar is a fake sleazebag, can we be certain that she is not in fact a sleazebag, but instead is a non-sleaze bag who (for reasons hard to fathom, to be sure) wants to be viewed as a sleaze bag? And if that is the case, what do we think? Does she succeed? Perhaps, she only succeeds being a fake sleaze bag. Or a fake sleaze bag, as the crow flies.

Then, I began to think that crows, when they fly more than from tree to tree, generally fly in groups, never alone. And, as you may know, a group of crows is known as a “murder” of crows. I looked up the origin of that term, and it seems to come from the deep past when crows were viewed as a bad omen, harbinger of death, lingering over a battlefield.

Whenever, I think of crows, I think of ravens. Other than having the same color, I guess they are very different birds, but do you know what a group of ravens are? They are an “unkindness of ravens”.

That got me thinking even further. What is a group of Omars called? Maybe a target of Omars? How about Trumps? Let’s call it……a crime of Trumps. That’s because murder and unkindness are already taken.

If Trump thinks that Tom Homan is going to de-escalate Minneapolis, he will probably be surprised. By the way, there is, as I understand it, only one Tom Homan. What would a group of Tom Homans be called. Let’s say a “bribe of Homans”. That would do the trick.

Okay, on with my day. A fairly busy one. May even have to dig out my car. We had our snow shoveled yesterday, but after 2.5 hours of hard work, the two shovelers vanished. They did the driveway, but not the two cars in the driveway. And, odd to be sure, they didn’t collect their money. Will they return today? Or are they far away? As the crow flies.