A Tale of Two Earthquakes: D.C. v. Colorado

It's good to note that while all of Washington apparently was in a full-scale earthquake panic Tuesday, folks out here in New Mexico and Colorado managed to survive quite nicely a 5.3 magnitude earthquake that occurred just before midnight Monday nine miles southwest of Trinidad, Co., just north of the New Mexico border.

As far as I can determine there were no mass evacuations of buildings and no one decided to create a humongous traffic jam, which seems to be the Washington response to the kinds of natural events that routinely occur other places in the country.

Oh yeah, there's a bear loose here in my neighborhood in The Original Las Vegas, N.M., and we have not alerted the National Guard or the Homeland Security Department.