Quote of the Day (Twain)

“The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.”—Mark Twain, Mark Twain in Eruption: Hitherto Unpublished Pages About Men and Events, edited by Bernard DeVoto
(As the events of the last couple of weeks prove, the mighty heartland river remains as impervious to the ways of man as always, much to our heartache.)