Let Freedom Ring

Despite Friday morning's dismal economic news, the line of hopeful-looking LLC and corporation-forming folks snaked long in the office of the Maryland State Department of Assessment and Taxation, the faces mirroring shiny brand-new company names sing-songed ahead of mine, among them Revelations Group, Intertwining Dreams, and County Cork - a land of choice cheese today and source of so many British-oppressed Irish immigrating to America so long ago - all a fitting run-up to the next-announced, Cheese Happens, my own declaration of independence.