It is so typical of politicians to insure that calls regarding their interests would not fall under the Do Not Call list restrictions.

I'm sure every state has robo calls, those telemarketing recorded messages about why one candidate sucks and another one is much better.

On the news here in Las Vegas: last night at midnight phones started ringing. There was a computer/human error at the robo call company in another state that caused calls scheduled for Monday afternoon to go out Monday at 12:01 a.m. You can imagine how that has gone over. People are really irritated. Then, the robo company put out another call to apologize for that call. Oh, please, just leave us alone!

Have you been receiving all those campaign ads in the mail? Every day there are more of them, and every day they get bigger. On the news tonight we were told that we can stop those mailings by sending a form to the Clark County Election Commission requesting our name be removed from the mailing lists. Oh really. I'll believe that when I see it. I'm going to see if my other county has a similar provision.

This is the cyclamen in our yard. It dies back every summer and returns in the fall to bloom all winter.