October 23. Eight days until Halloween. The temperature today is once again expected to break 80 degrees.
And it's humid.
Indian summer? Global warming? As the pundits battle over the cause, have those air-conditioned fat cats in Washington stopped to realize that America is eight short days from crisis? If this autumnal heat wave does not abate, untold Halloweens will be ruined as trick-or-treaters' chocolatey loot melts in the street, not in their mouth.
I needn't stress the importance of Halloween on the child psyche. We've all experienced the joy and the succulence of costume and candy, the emotional release from the relentless grind of homework and the ever-present dread of pop quiz.
Fistfuls of free candy is all that keeps a kid going. Without it, they may as well quit grade school, get a dead-end job, settle down, and prepare for old age.
If autumn doesn't come soon, we're in for a messy All Hallow's Eve and a long winter of discontent.
Al Gore...where are you???
(Photo of jack o'lantern copyright Encyclopaedia Brittanica Online.)
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