One Of Our Pacific Silver Furs Is Missing

Thanks to an act of federal overreaching outraging Wiccans and Druidic Orders everywhere, the State of Washington has coughed up a 65-foot Christmas Tree for the U.S. Capitol Building in the other Washington. You might think it's funny that the federal government has made off with our tree, but how about this: child labor was part of the deal. It's "decorated with 10,000 lights and 3,000 ornaments handmade by schoolchildren." They really have no shame, do they?

If you'd like to arrange a hijacking, feel free to use TreeTracker. The tree looks about to make a break across the Indiana border (Huh, Indiana is really next to Ohio? We would have put it lower) at the moment.

The tree is a gift from the entire state and was selected by Ted Bechtol, Deputy Superintendent of Capitol Grounds, from the Olympic National Forest on Washington's scenic Olympic Peninsula. After a brief cutting ceremony in early November, the tree was taken on a festive road tour through communities all around the state.

Festive...or funereal? Yeah, think about that.