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So as I was falling ill, I heard about some yo-yo leaving pipe bombs in mail boxes, off in the “far” Mid-West, Iowa and all that.<\/p>\n

This afternoon.<\/p>\n

Ding-dong.<\/i><\/p>\n

It’s the mailman. He has my mail. He wants to pick up my outgoing mail. He is not opening my mailbox.<\/p>\n

Another pipe bomb was found in a mailbox down in Salida<\/a>, about 100 miles southwest of here. Another one was found in Pueblo, possibly not related, but that doesn’t make it any less lethal.<\/p>\n

I don’t know whether to be angry, scared, or intensely annoyed. Probably I should be all three …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So as I was falling ill, I heard about some yo-yo leaving pipe bombs in mail boxes, off in the “far” Mid-West, Iowa and all that. This afternoon. Ding-dong. 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