This year’s All Fools Day fell on Sunday, so Koffee Klutchers didn’t meet for serious caffeine supping. We secretly voted to celebrate it this week — if L.M. Duck showed up. He did. And of course, conversations immediately took off on politics.

• Ousted from his county commissioner job, L.M. Duck won the dog catcher job by a narrow margin (with no opposition).

• “Politics still makes strange bedfellows,” opined Preacher while rolling his eyes toward Duck. “Too many aren’t too picky about who or what they climb in with.”

• “Hismones and hermones mess up brains,” snorted Barn Bette, “even of old goats. But it does helps raise livestock.”

• Trying to steer talk back onto a higher track, Ol’ JD sed: “We’re only as smart as those we tap for ideas. Some prefer listening to themselves ... which explains politicians.”

• We came away from this highly intellectual conversation with this from Phil Osifer: “Left wing or right, nothing really gets off the ground without winging in unison. Otherwise, it’s all running around flapping with no lift.”

Jonathan Birdsong is a pen name for a Farm Progress editor.