You never know what we'll churn up in cleaning a stall
How many of those scoffing at climate change also think Darwin was all wrong?
Even while planting hybrid seeds or taking medicines developed through application of an understanding of evolution?
For that matter, speaking honestly, they’d probably still have the world flat rather than global.
It’s not all that they’d flatten.
The news coming out of Kansas is truly disturbing. Things were bad enough when historian Thomas Frank asked, What’s the Matter With Kansas? (Subtitled, “How conservatives won the heart of America.”) But now it’s looking out and out suicidal.
It’s what happens when ultra-right-wingers take over the governorship and legislature and begin dismantling the government. Make that, all signs of civilization. How bad can it get? When the legislature cuts down the judiciary?
This is tyranny running toward dictatorship. And the bold economic “plan” is piling up record debts for the state – and others who just might come to the rescue will wind up with the “tax-increase” label. Well, it’s looking hopeless unless the corporations in the state force a change in direction, as business leaders are urging. (At least they know the value of investing for a future.)
My suggestion? Go ahead, if you want, be truly conservative. Give it back to the Indians. And move to your own reservation.
If you garden, unless you have a pickup truck or access to one, you’ll have to decide what to do with the limbs and branches you trim. Bagging them for the dump’s a pain. One thing you don’t see in the colorful gardening books, of course, just may be essential. I’m speaking of the brush pile. Especially if you can’t get a burn permit due to neighborhood density.
The wood breaks down over time, however slowly, but the pile does provide refuge for small critters as well as kindling for our wood-fired stove through winter.
It’s all part of working our plot, with an emphasis on composting and natural balance.
In an urban setting like ours, rejuvenating the soil itself can be a revelation. Items keep coming to the surface from somewhere underground – stones, glass, costume jewelry, bits of metal or plastic objects. Nothing prepared me for the spaceman, though – the one holding a pair of pliers. No, he topped the toy horse and the Neanderthal with a club, for certain.
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Humpty-Trumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty-Trumpty took a great fall.
All the Trump’s men and all the Trump’s bad-asses
Couldn’t put Trumpty together again.
Party first?
As the good ol’ boys go:
Sober up later.
More than two aspirin and a raw egg, at that.
Party first?
Leave the poor custodians to clean up later? Or the ambulance and emergency room personnel?
The ones you look down on?
There are two sides to this issue. As well as two parties, for good reason.
Party first?
Who’s gonna fix the disaster?
Rock all you want. More than the room’s swirling. What can you grab hold of that’s steady?
One of the things I’m seeing the Bernie Sanders camp get right is a recognition of the importance of short messages that appeal to the emotions. I’m seeing a lot of memes (those online posters many of us like to reblog) to that effect, and I suspect many of them are created and distributed by his supporters rather than his staff.
I’ve previously posted my lament that liberal candidates in this country typically sound like they’re giving a lecture – reading everything but the footnotes – rather than speaking passionately from the heart. Great analysis but it’s hard to reconcile that with your feelings when you’re trying to balance the family checkbook. The right-wing, in contrast, well, just listen to Donald Trump riding roughshod over reality. Which would you rather hear in a locker room or a bar? And which are you more likely to remember and repeat? Well, maybe not Trump unless he was performing live mic comedy. Seriously!
Hillary Clinton has her reasons for sticking close to her “talking points,” and I do respect her for that. But the short takes are backfiring for her, as Bernie’s backers are demonstrating.
Just look at how he’s countering the “socialist” label. The graphic of a Social Security card says simply, “Got one of these? You’re a card-carrying socialist.” Bingo! Eight words. And unless you’re in the One Percent, it’s obviously important to your future. What can the so-called conservatives point as their accomplishments? Nothing so dramatic, for sure.
So she’s perceived as cold and calculating, while he’s seen as just nasty, even cruel, pandering to the audience – in other words, a rich bully.
Suggests another bumper sticker:
Each variety can be remarkably unique. If you’re a gardener, you’re planning a range, not just for taste, either, but to ripen as far across the season as you can. And then? It’s a lot like sampling good wine, one after another.
