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Good morning everyone.
Cool temps moving in to greet the official end of summer. Harvesting is pretty much done. A few more tomatoes and some late corn waiting to be picked.
Still have that 100' of potatoes to dig up. Will start next weekend on it. E2 is still recovering from back surgery, so it's on me.

Killing The Planet For No Reason: Lenmings Uber Alles

It’s not enough the humans will not leave off killing the planet with their clinically insane koyaanisqatsi commutes to and from The Job, where they snail along slow as slugs for many many miles, day after day week after week month after month year after year decade after decade, they also have to further kill the planet filling the skies with helicopters and other aircraft, to Look at the koyaanisqatsi, and Report on it, for the radio, and the television.

Brain Damage Like An American

In these days in 2001 winger behemoth Clear Channel was circulating a memo identifying Songs That Have Become Wrong, that should no longer be played on the radio, because those airplanes did not follow their flight path there on September 11.

You can just picture these people, scraping away at the frontal lobe with a hatpin, until they’ve got the higher brain functioning sufficiently reduced, to where this seems like a good idea.

The Monkeys And The Monkeys

On this day in 2011 REM said: that’s it, no more, we are quitting, it’s the end of our banding. And they meant it! Almost always when a band says it is over, it is lying. They may not think they are lying, at the time. But, sure enough, a couple years later, or ten, or even forty years on, there they are, still going. So far, REM has not fallen into that groove.

REM produced some musics that were good. Like this song here. Which is a pre-cog, of this the age of the Kleagle. Bigly!

Actual Resistance

I can't get the link to work, but I have seen a blog that interviews several truck drivers organizing a general strike on October 1.

This is the first example of practical resistance that I have seen, as opposed to gloom and doom.

The blog piece does not mention the Teamsters Union, which tells me a lot. This is a true grass roots campaign.

A long way between blog posts and shutting down truck traffic.

A long shot is infinitely better than no shot.

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