Global Warming Fights Back!

Four days after a blizzard made one look twice at Punxsutawney Phil (and his prophecy that Old Man Winter had six weeks more to live and make a fuss), Republicus stepped out to a balmy, 66 degrees fahrenheit in the Nation's Capital.

He heard a sound he did not expect to hear on Febrary 16: a young woman walking by wearing flip-flops.

Republicus suddenly felt like donning a sailor-suit and breaking out into song while sauntering down the side-walk a la Gene Kelly or Frank Sinatra in the 1945 film Anchor's Aweigh...