Late, late at night, when all is very still outside, you can still hear the ceaseless thrum-hum of tires on the highways -- I-88, Route 59, Ogden Avenue, 75th Street -- as people go about their business around and through Naperville.

My kids can be squirrelly. Your dog is squirrelly. Her sister is occasionally squirrelly. Congress is most certainly squirrelly.