If Mack the Knife is back in town I'm hoping he doesn't show up at Starbucks, a respectable joint. We're a classy town, here in Pelham. We're in church on Sundays, having studied our Sunday School lesson, and listen attentively to the sermon. We support our local schools and have a keen community spirit. If you need helping hand, just let one of us know, and we'll be right over. We all get along, all for one, and one for all. Now that I've got that bit of puffery out of the way, I can get back to the dismal national news.