I am still in vacation mode. After a week happily spent consuming equal measures of blueberry pancakes, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Rummikub, returning to work has left me with a severe case of the mental bends. And while my brain adjusts to the pain of no longer quiescing in Maine, all I can muster up are a few Random Thoughts™:

• I had planned to write about the Connecticut Bar Association gun control amicus brouhaha, but I grow more torn every time I try to make up my mind about it. So, like Arthur Balfour on tariff reform, I’ll settle for nailing my colors to the fence and I’ll hope that my agonizing will help others similarly situated to find an answer: